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Risk factors
By Mayo Clinic staffRisk factors for eyestrain include:
- Activities that require intensive or extended use of your eyes for tasks such as using a computer, studying printed materials or driving
- Underlying eye problems such as an eye muscle imbalance or uncorrected vision (refractive error)
- Stress or fatigue
- Extremely dry air or moving air from heating and air conditioning
References
- Eye comfort exercises. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. http://www.cdc.gov/od/ohs/pdffiles/exercises.pdf. Accessed May 4, 2010.
- Computers and your eyes. Prevent Blindness America. http://www.preventblindness.org/eye_problems/computers.html. Accessed May 4, 2010.
- Computer workstations: Monitors. U.S. Department of Labor. http://www.osha.gov/SLTC/etools/computerworkstations/components_monitors.html. Accessed May 4, 2010.
- Computer vision syndrome. American Optometric Association. http://www.aoa.org/x5374.xml. Accessed May 4, 2010.
- Yan Z, et al. Computer vision syndrome: A widely spreading but largely unknown epidemic among computer users. Computers in Human Behavior. 2008;24:2026.
- Robertson DM (expert opinion). Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn. May 10, 2010.
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