This study compared quality of life (QoL) of myopic adults and children who were established spectacle, soft contact lens (SCL), or orthokeratology (OK) wearers as well as parent/child responses using...
Forty-eight adults (aged 18-26 years), 49 children (aged 9-17 years), and the children's parent, completed PREP2, with 7 subscales (symptoms, vision, activities, appearance, peer perception, handling,...
Average age of adults was 22 ± 2 and children was 14 ± 2 years, and duration of correction use was 8 ± 3 for adults and 5 ± 2 years for children (both p < 0.01). Adult OK wearers were more satisfied w...
Activity-driven children and adults perceive significant benefits from OK over spectacles. Parents' perceptions did not align with their children's perceptions of their correction....
The aim of this study was to characterize the temporal and spatial distribution of myopia among students aged 7-18 years, by analyzing the aggregation area and providing the basis for the prevention a...
A database for the spatial analysis of myopia in China during 1995-2014 was established using ArcGIS10.0 software as a platform for data management and presentation. A spatial autocorrelation analysis...
Our data demonstrated that the prevalence of myopia in China in 1995, 2000, 2005, 2010, and 2014 was 35.9, 41.5, 48.7, 57.3, and 57.1%, respectively, thus indicating a gradual upward trend. The preval...
Our data demonstrate that, from 1995 to 2014, the prevalence of myopia increased in students aged 7-18 years in China. In addition, the prevalence of myopia is randomly distributed in various province...
To re-examine the changes with time in the underlying patterns of individual refraction at different ages, which have led to an increased prevalence of myopia in a population of Asian children....
Using published cross-sectional longitudinal data, the frequency distributions of spherical equivalent refractive error (SE) in yearly cohorts of 6- and 12-year-old Japanese children during the period...
Both models suggested that over the period of the study, little change occurred in the SE frequency distributions for 6-year-olds, with most children having SEs near emmetropia. In contrast, in each a...
The observed increase in mean levels of myopia in older Japanese children in the late 20th century is due to a greater proportion of children failing to maintain emmetropisation between the ages of 6 ...
In the field of myopia control, effective optical or pharmaceutical therapies are now available to patients in many markets. This creates challenges for the conduct of placebo-controlled, randomised c...
Myopia is a refractive disorder arising from a mismatch between refractive power and relatively long axial length of the eye. With its dramatically increasing prevalence, myopia has become a pervasive...
The development of myopia is influenced by multiple environmental and genetic factors. A third component, epigenetics, may shed light on some of the relationships between environmental and genetic fac...
To evaluate the effect of myopia on retinal vascular bifurcation....
A cross-sectional study that retrospectively analyzed the fundus photographs and clinical data of 493 people who participated in routine physical examinations in Huadong Sanatorium. One eye of each su...
The mean age was 41.83 ± 10.43 years and 63.49% were women. The mean spherical equivalent refraction (SER) was - 4.59 ± 3.07 D. Ninety-nine (20.08%) eyes met the definition of high myopia (SER ≤ -6.0 ...
The vascular bifurcation differs in dependence on the myopic refractive error and a significant increase in the difference can be observed in high myopic eyes....
This study aims to evaluate the efficacy of 0.01% atropine eye drops in preventing myopia shift and myopia onset in premyopic children. A prospective, randomized, double-masked, placebo-controlled, an...
Within the limits of only two consecutive 6-month observation period, 0.01% atropine eye drops effectively prevented myopic shift, axial elongation, and myopia onset in premyopic children....
This trial was registered in the Chinese Clinical Trial Registry (Registration number: ChiCTR2000034760). Registered 18 July 2020....
• Minimal studies on interventions for pre-myopia, despite the International Myopia Institute stating that preventing myopia is an "even more valuable target" for science and practice than reducing pr...
• A total of 0.01% atropine eye drops may safely and effectively reduce the proportion of myopia onset and fast myopic shift in premyopic schoolchildren....
To investigate the knowledge, training and clinical practice of Spanish optometrists about preventing and controlling myopia progression....
A web-based questionnaire was distributed to Spanish optometrists through social networks, optometric professional bodies and one of the major Spanish optometrists' associations to assess practitioner...
A total of 534 optometrists with a mean age of 40.8 ± 10.3 years completed the survey. Most respondents have been practicing optometry for more than 20 years (89.8%), report having actively treated ch...
Spanish optometrists are very active in the management of myopia, especially by fitting orthokeratology lenses or dual-focus soft contact lenses for myopia control, but there is still potential for im...
