Conjunctival ultraviolet autofluorescence as a biomarker of outdoor time in myopic children
Miriam de la Puente, Valentina Bilbao-Malavé, Jorge González-Zamora, Aura Ortega Claici, Jaione Bezunartea, Leire Gomez-Arteta, Elena Alonso, María Hernández, Patricia Fernández-Robredo, Manuel Sáenz de Viteri, Nerea Martín Calvo, Alfredo García-Layana, Jesús Barrio-Barrio, Sergio Recalde · 2024
Read Conjunctival ultraviolet autofluorescence as a biomarker of outdoor time in myopic children by Miriam de la Puente, Valentina Bilbao-Malavé, Jorge González-Zamora, Aura Ortega Claici, Jaione Bezunartea, Leire Gomez-Arteta, Elena Alonso, María Hernández, Patricia Fernández-Robredo, Manuel Sáenz de Viteri, Nerea Martín Calvo, Alfredo García-Layana, Jesús Barrio-Barrio, Sergio Recalde (2024) in the Tower of Babel, a free online library of public-domain works preserved in clean, searchable text. No sign-up. The full text is served as a plain-text file at a predictable URL, where text is present: https://antarctic-labs.com/tower-of-babel/pmc-11663684.txt.
Description
Miriam de la Puente led a large team testing an eye marker of outdoor time in children in a 2024 study. Short-sightedness is rising and starting earlier in childhood. Time outdoors protects against it, but measuring that time is hard. A glowing patch on the white of the eye, caused by ultraviolet light, might serve as an objective marker.
They compared hundreds of children with and without short sight at a Spanish clinic. The short-sighted group spent fewer hours outdoors each week. Their glowing patch was much smaller on average, and it was absent far more often. The authors back the patch area as a useful marker of outdoor time in this age group.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Miriam de la Puente, Valentina Bilbao-Malavé, Jorge González-Zamora, Aura Ortega Claici, Jaione Bezunartea, Leire Gomez-Arteta, Elena Alonso, María Hernández, Patricia Fernández-Robredo, Manuel Sáenz de Viteri, Nerea Martín Calvo, Alfredo García-Layana, Jesús Barrio-Barrio, Sergio Recalde |
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| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 31 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |