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Myopia Progression Risk: Seasonal and Lifestyle Variations in Axial Length Growth in Czech Children

The growth in the prevalence of myopia leads to the growth of socioeconomic stress in society. It is important to detect any potential risk factors leading to myopia onset and progression. Among the potential risk factors, the lack of natural daylight exposure and the lack of the physical activity t...

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Autores principales: Rusnak, Stepan, Salcman, Vaclav, Hecova, Lenka, Kasl, Zdenek
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5859838/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29692929
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/5076454
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author Rusnak, Stepan
Salcman, Vaclav
Hecova, Lenka
Kasl, Zdenek
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Salcman, Vaclav
Hecova, Lenka
Kasl, Zdenek
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description The growth in the prevalence of myopia leads to the growth of socioeconomic stress in society. It is important to detect any potential risk factors leading to myopia onset and progression. Among the potential risk factors, the lack of natural daylight exposure and the lack of the physical activity together with excess of near-work activities in children are the most prevalent. In the study, the axial length growth depending on the season and the type of behaviour was measured. The assessment was performed in 12-year-old children, 398 eyes of whom were included and measured during the winter and summer period. The children were categorized by the amount of time spent on near-work, physical, and outdoor activity. Results. Statistically significantly higher (p < 0.0001) axial length growth was observed during the winter period. Statistically significantly (p < 0.0001) more frequently, the eyeball growth has been proved during the winter season. According to the way of spending leisure time, no statistically significant difference was reported within the individual subgroups in the development of the eyeball length during the observed period. However, statistically significant differences were ascertained in the eyeball initial length within various groups. Conclusion. The lack of daylight exposure may lead to myopia progression.
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spelling pubmed-58598382018-04-24 Myopia Progression Risk: Seasonal and Lifestyle Variations in Axial Length Growth in Czech Children Rusnak, Stepan Salcman, Vaclav Hecova, Lenka Kasl, Zdenek J Ophthalmol Research Article The growth in the prevalence of myopia leads to the growth of socioeconomic stress in society. It is important to detect any potential risk factors leading to myopia onset and progression. Among the potential risk factors, the lack of natural daylight exposure and the lack of the physical activity together with excess of near-work activities in children are the most prevalent. In the study, the axial length growth depending on the season and the type of behaviour was measured. The assessment was performed in 12-year-old children, 398 eyes of whom were included and measured during the winter and summer period. The children were categorized by the amount of time spent on near-work, physical, and outdoor activity. Results. Statistically significantly higher (p < 0.0001) axial length growth was observed during the winter period. Statistically significantly (p < 0.0001) more frequently, the eyeball growth has been proved during the winter season. According to the way of spending leisure time, no statistically significant difference was reported within the individual subgroups in the development of the eyeball length during the observed period. However, statistically significant differences were ascertained in the eyeball initial length within various groups. Conclusion. The lack of daylight exposure may lead to myopia progression. Hindawi 2018-03-06 /pmc/articles/PMC5859838/ /pubmed/29692929 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/5076454 Text en Copyright © 2018 Stepan Rusnak et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_full Myopia Progression Risk: Seasonal and Lifestyle Variations in Axial Length Growth in Czech Children
title_fullStr Myopia Progression Risk: Seasonal and Lifestyle Variations in Axial Length Growth in Czech Children
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title_short Myopia Progression Risk: Seasonal and Lifestyle Variations in Axial Length Growth in Czech Children
title_sort myopia progression risk: seasonal and lifestyle variations in axial length growth in czech children
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5859838/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29692929
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/5076454
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