Short-term effects of sunlight exposure on fundus blood flow perfusion in children: a randomised controlled trial

Lingyi Zhao, Bo Zhang, Jingjing Wang, Jinliuxing Yang, Linlin Du, Tianxiao Wang, Xun Xu, Xiangui He, Jun Chen · 2024

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Lingyi Zhao and co-authors test sunlight breaks for children's eyes in a 2024 trial. Eighty-one students aged seven to fifteen read indoors for an hour, then spent fifteen minutes in sunlight. Chance split them between dimmer and brighter sun conditions, at four and ten thousand lux. Blood flow in three layers at the back of the eye was read before reading, after reading, and during the sun break.

Within five minutes of sunlight, perfusion shifts were already under way. Short breaks are a live policy idea for schools fighting myopia. A blood flow readout gives a body level check on whether brief sun really changes the eye, beyond surveys of time outdoors. The dose split shows whether brighter sun buys more effect.

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CREATORLingyi Zhao, Bo Zhang, Jingjing Wang, Jinliuxing Yang, Linlin Du, Tianxiao Wang, Xun Xu, Xiangui He, Jun Chen
YEAR2024
COLLECTIONPAPERS
FORMATTXT
FILE SIZE26 KB
VERSION1.0
LICENSECC BY 4.0
RIGHTSCC BY
SOURCEEurope PMC

Source: https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC11672060

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