In 2018, a consortium of government bodies in China led by the Ministry of Education released the Comprehensive Plan to Prevent Nearsightedness among Children and Teenagers (CPPNCT), aiming to reduce ...

Aim: To investigate the relationship of outdoor activities and myopia in Singapore teenage children. Methods: Teenage children (1249 participants), examined in the Singapore Cohort study Of Risk ...

British Journal of Ophthalmology (BJO) is an international peer-reviewed journal for ophthalmologists and visual science specialists.

Ocular burns constitute true ocular emergencies and both thermal and chemical burns represent potentially blinding ocular injuries. Thermal burns result from accidents associated with firework ...

Purpose To evaluate the associations between omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (ω-3 PUFAs) and other dietary factors with myopia. Methods A total of 1005 Chinese children, aged from 6 to 8 years, ...

Backgrounds/aims Any association of secondhand smoke (SHS) with refractive astigmatism (RA) and corneal astigmatism (CA) ...

Background Retinoblastoma is the most common intraocular tumour in children. This study aimed to assess the visual outcomes and risk factors leading to visual impairment in children with ...

Footnotes Contributors Both authors were involved in writing the manuscript. Dr MLR wrote the first draft and Dr JJD edited and finalised it. Dr JJD is the guarantor. Funding National Eye Institute ...

Purpose To explore the association between early response of different lesions and the number of anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (anti-VEGF) injections in neovascular age-related macular ...

Drusen are focal deposits of extracellular material located between the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) and Bruch's membrane and represent the major phenotypic characteristic of age-related macular ...

Purpose To evaluate clinical features and visual outcomes in macular pseudohole (MPH) and to investigate associations between visual acuity and optical coherence tomography (OCT) parameters in ...