ArticleInternational journal of ophthalmology2025
Myopia control efficacy of peripheral defocus modifying spectacle lenses in children and adolescents: a Meta-analysis.
Article in International journal of ophthalmology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.
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- Modern Methods for Preventing the Progression of Myopia in Children.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Review
- Asymmetry between nasal and temporal refraction with accommodation in myopes and emmetropes.Biomedical optics express · 2026Article
- Light and myopia: a focus on the expanding role of non-visual opsins.Eye and vision (London, England) · 2026Review
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Abstract
aimTo evaluate the effects of microlens design of peripheral defocus modifying spectacle lenses (PDMSLs) and non-microlens design of PDMSLs on controlling myopia progression in children and adolescents.
methodsA systematic search was carried out in the PubMed, Cochrane Library, Embase, CNKI, and Web of Science databases. The search targeted randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and cohort studies (CTs) that explored the effects of PDMSLs on myopia control among children and adolescents. The Cochrane risk-of-bias tool and the Newcastle-Ottawa Scale were employed to evaluate the risk of bias in the included studies. The published biases of the included studies were evaluated using Egger's test.
resultsNine studies (7 RCTs, 2 CTs) were included, involving 4332 participants in the PDMSLs group and 7317 participants in the single vision lenses (SVLs) group. Meta-analysis showed that PDMSLs with microlens design had lower change in spherical equivalent refraction (SER) than SVLs at 6, 12, 18, and 24mo after wearing glasses, with reductions of 0.19 D (95%CI: 0.14 to 0.24,
conclusionThe synthesized evidence indicates superior myopia management outcomes with microlens design of PDMSLs compared to both SVLs and non-microlens design of PDMSLs in children and adolescents.
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