The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
these well-designed cohort studies did Point towards this concept that if you do too much near work as a kid that you're more likely to develop nearsightedness as you get through those those sort of you know uh pre-teen and even into the teen years which is when most of that myopia progression or eyeball elongation is actually happening to cause nearsightedness
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But there is a separate issue and it's one that the pediatric opthromologists are very concerned about and that is particularly close work in kids. close work combined with a lot of screen work and the issue of myopia.