Could indigo light prevent nearsightedness in children?
Adding indigo wavelengths to indoor light prevented myopia in tree shrews, and researchers say the approach could guide future classroom and home lighting.
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PR NewswireRestoring a missing slice of sunshine to indoor light may help prevent myopia
Research has already shown that the more time children spend playing with screens indoors instead of outdoors, the more likely they are to develop myopia. In fact, some experts predict that nearly 5 billion people (or 50% of the world's population) will be nearsighted by 2050.
We spend most of the day under fluorescent tubes or light bulbs that illuminate our rooms, offices and classrooms, lights that, from a light point of view, are "incomplete." The worst thing is that this deficit could aggravate an emerging problem: experts predict that almost 5 billion people (more than half the world's population) will suffer myopia by 2050. This week, a research led by the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Center and the Universit…
Restoring missing sunlight indoors may help prevent myopia
Researchers have identified a narrow band of blue-violet light that prevented experimentally induced myopia in tree shrews, raising the possibility that the lighting used inside homes, schools and childcare facilities could influence how children’s eyes develop. The study, led by scientists at Cincinnati Children’s and the University of Alabama at Birmingham, found that exposure to […]
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