Newswise — Fort Lauderdale, FL An international team of researchers tested a contact lens that may reduce the progress of nearsightedness, or myopia, by fully correcting the central vision but reducing the relative peripheral farsightedness, or hyperopia.
The study, presented at the 2010 Annual Meeting of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology this week, studied 100 myopic Chinese children, ages 7-14. Test subjects were provided contact lenses with the modified corrections.
After six months, the children with the special lenses showed 54 percent less progression of myopia than control subjects.
According to the researchers, “Longer experience with wear of such contact lenses is needed, however the data are promising with regard to a new generation of contact lenses aimed at myopia control.”
The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) is the largest eye and vision research organization in the world. Members include more than 12,500 eye and vision researchers from over 80 countries. ARVO encourages and assists research, training, publication and knowledge-sharing in vision and ophthalmology. For more information, visit www.arvo.org.All abstracts accepted for presentation at the ARVO Annual Meeting represent previously unpublished data and conclusions.
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