ArticleInvestigative ophthalmology & visual science2018
Dim Light Exposure and Myopia in Children.
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- Pooled it
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- Global research trends of myopia in children and adolescents: A bibliometric review with hotspot visualization.Medicine · 2026Review
- Mesopic Illumination in Natural Environments: Implications for Myopia Research.Ophthalmic & physiological optics : the journal of the British College of Ophthalmic Opticians (Optometrists) · 2026Article
- Myopia as a Global Public Health Challenge a Narrative Review.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Light-at-night exposure drives myopia via melanopsin signalling.Science China. Life sciences · 2026Article
- Circadian rhythms regulate refractive development across species.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- RLRL Therapeutic Feasibility and Potential Mechanism on Myopia.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Review
- IMI: The Role of Light in Refractive Development and Myopia: Evidence from Animal and Human Studies.Investigative ophthalmology & visual science · 2025Review
- Mechanisms Underlying Myopia Progression from Visual Signaling to Metabolic Remodeling in Retina.JMA journal · 2025Review
- An analysis of light that reaches the eye surface in an outdoor environment.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- How to Deal With Darkness: Modeling and Visualization of Zero-Inflated Personal Light Exposure Data on a Logarithmic Scale.Journal of biological rhythms · 2025Article
- Bidirectional Phosphorylation Changes in Opsins Associated With Early Myopia and Hyperopia Signal Regulation by Phosphoproteomics.Investigative ophthalmology & visual science · 2025Article
- Childhood Myopia Part II: Treatment Mechanisms, Emerging Options, and Considerations.Investigative ophthalmology & visual science · 2025Review
- Measuring the visual environment of children and young people at risk of myopia: a scoping review.Graefe's archive for clinical and experimental ophthalmology = Albrecht von Graefes Archiv fur klinische und experimentelle Ophthalmologie · 2025Article
- Modulation of All-Trans Retinoic Acid by Light and Dopamine in the Murine Eye.Investigative ophthalmology & visual science · 2025Article
- Lifestyle and sleep-related behaviours in children with myopia.BMC ophthalmology · 2025Article
- Retinal Responses to Short- and Longer-Term Predominant ON or OFF Stimulation in Emmetropes and Myopes.Investigative ophthalmology & visual science · 2025Article
- Myopia and daylight-A combination of factors.Frontiers in medicine · 2025Article
- Perceptions and Barriers to Accessing Myopia Management in the UK.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
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5 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Purpose: Experimental myopia in animal models suggests that bright light can influence refractive error and prevent myopia. Additionally, animal research indicates activation of rod pathways and circadian rhythms may influence eye growth. In children, objective measures of personal light exposure, recorded by wearable light sensors, have been used to examine the effects of bright light exposure on myopia. The effect of time spent in a broad range of light intensities on childhood refractive development is not known. This study aims to evaluate dim light exposure in myopia. Methods: We reanalyzed previously published data to investigate differences in dim light exposure across myopic and nonmyopic children from the Role of Outdoor Activity in Myopia (ROAM) study in Queensland, Australia. The amount of time children spent in scotopic (<1-1 lux), mesopic (1-30 lux), indoor photopic (>30-1000 lux), and outdoor photopic (>1000 lux) light over both weekdays and weekends was measured with wearable light sensors. Results: We found significant differences in average daily light exposure between myopic and nonmyopic children. On weekends, myopic children received significantly less scotopic light (P = 0.024) and less outdoor photopic light than nonmyopic children (P < 0.001). In myopic children, more myopic refractive errors were correlated with increased time in mesopic light (R = -0.46, P = 0.002). Conclusions: These findings suggest that in addition to bright light exposure, rod pathways stimulated by dim light exposure could be important to human myopia development. Optimal strategies for preventing myopia with environmental light may include both dim and bright light exposure.
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