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The Evolutionary Model of Mild-to-moderate Myopia in China

NCT02667509 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 852441

Last updated 2016-04-14

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Myopia has emerged as a major health issue in east Asia, because of its increasingly high prevalence in the past few decades (now 80-90% in school-leavers), and because of the sight-threatening pathologies associated with high myopia, which now aff ects 10-20% of those completing secondary schooling in this part of the world. Similar, but less marked, changes are occurring in other parts of the world. The higher prevalence of myopia in east Asian cities seems to be associated with increasing educational pressures, combined with life-style changes, which have reduced the time children spend outside.

Conditions

  • Refractive Error

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Ministry of Health, China

    collaborator OTHER_GOV

  • Sun Yat-sen University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Haotian Lin Lin, M.D., Ph.D · Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center, Sun Yat-sen University

  • Yizhi Liu, M.D., Ph.D · Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center, Sun Yat-sen University

  • Erping Long, M.D., Ph.D · Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center, Sun Yat-sen University

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2005-01-31
Primary Completion
2015-10-31
Completion
2015-10-31

Countries

  • China

Study Locations

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