Elevated Light Levels In Classrooms Have A Significant Effect On Myopia

[Ahanu]

Let there be light :)

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25913873

Elevated light levels in classrooms have a significant effect on myopia onset, decreases in refraction, and axial growth; if the findings of lighting intervention are reproduced in future studies, the ambient light levels in schools should be improved.

 

[dd99]

Thanks. I thought the heading 'Elevated light levels in classrooms have a significant effect on myopia' meant light was bad for eyes!

The title of the paper is better: 'Elevated light levels in schools have a protective effect on myopia'.

Let's just hope the authorities don't take this to mean they can put LEDs with the massive blue spike in all classrooms. Then we'll have a generation of nearly blind kids... I'm only half joking.

 

[Steven Bussinger]

Nice find.