Tag: Myopia (Nearsightedness)

Wearing spectacles with highly aspherical lenslets versus single-vision spectacle lenses reduces myopia progression and axial elongation over five years

Each daily one-hour increment of digital screen time associated with 21 percent higher odds of myopia

No evidence seen for loss of treatment effect with discontinuation of multifocal contacts in older teenagers with myopia

Higher proportion of myopia exhibited in those living in East Asia or urban area and in females, adolescents, and high school students

Isotemporal substitution of patterns with ≥15 minutes, 2,000 lux for other outdoor exposure patterns linked to less myopic shift

Baseline BCVA, prior myopic macular neovascularization, age, category 4 myopic maculopathy are most important predictive variables

Findings seen in children aged 5 to 12 years with low-to-moderate bilateral myopia

Greater benefits seen with 0.01 percent dose over three years versus 0.02 percent dose

SHS exposure linked to greater myopic refraction, longer axial length, increased odds of developing moderate and high myopia

RLRL effective for preventing myopia in children with premyopia, with up to a 54.1 percent reduction in incidence