Will the increased use of ring lights during the coronavirus pandemic lead to a growing burden of macular degeneration?

The pandemic of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2), the virus responsible for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), has brought with it many changes in the way with live, work, and socialise. One such change is an increase in the use of videoconferencing for communication wi...

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Autores principales: Stanhope, Jessica, Weinstein, Philip
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Ltd. 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10043955/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37144026
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mehy.2023.111064
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spelling pubmed-100439552023-03-28 Will the increased use of ring lights during the coronavirus pandemic lead to a growing burden of macular degeneration? Stanhope, Jessica Weinstein, Philip Med Hypotheses Article The pandemic of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2), the virus responsible for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), has brought with it many changes in the way with live, work, and socialise. One such change is an increase in the use of videoconferencing for communication with friends, family and work colleagues, and doing presentations, while physically distancing. We demonstrate an increase in the use of ring lights during the pandemic, and argue that this increased exposure to blue light may lead to a growing burden of macular degeneration in coming years. Elsevier Ltd. 2023-06 2023-03-28 /pmc/articles/PMC10043955/ /pubmed/37144026 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mehy.2023.111064 Text en © 2023 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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