Given the significant impact the pandemic has had on eye health, Clínica Nivaria, together with a working group of specialists from leading ophthalmological clinics in Spain and Portugal, has developed one of the first reports on eye health during the pandemic.
Through the launch of the " #VisionoftheFuture" report, the working group aimed to raise awareness that skipping eye exams for fear of infection can have a negative impact on eye health, harming vision. New habits, largely dominated by screens, have worsened eye health and intensified conditions such as dry eye.
Dry eye has been the condition that has worsened the most among older adults due to the conditions of working from home (with screens, poorly lit and poorly humidified spaces). On the other hand, cases of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) have seen the most significant deterioration in their prognosis. COVID-19 has caused many people with eye conditions to delay seeking medical attention, thus increasing the risk of irreversible vision loss.
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