While they were only 45% last year to wear corrections, it is now half of the French who wear glasses or contact lenses, according to the “2013 French visual health barometer” carried out for the National Association for the Improvement of Sight (Asnav).
Occasional carriers have decreased slightly and represent only 27% of French people against 34% in 2012.
On average, you renew your pair of glasses once every two and a half years, says the survey.
Despite the increase in health spending in the budget, the French seem to be well aware of the importance of monitoring their eyesight, which explains this observed increase. They “take prevention recommendations and prescriptions more seriously”, underlines Asnav.
Sight is a health area deemed more “worrying” by respondents, far ahead of cardiovascular disease, which is not necessarily good news because 80,000 women die each year from a disease. cardiovascular accident.
This survey was carried out by Opinionway from March 24 to April 11 among 800 people aged 18 and over, using the quota method.
