Spending an additional 40 min outdoors each day reduces the incidence of myopia among primary school children in China

Arch Dis Child Educ Pract Ed. 2016 Aug;101(4):219. doi: 10.1136/archdischild-2016-311102. Epub 2016 May 31.

Authors

Robert J Barry¹, Ian Wacogne², Joe Abbott²

Affiliations

¹ Birmingham Children's Hospital, Birmingham, West Midlands, UK Academic Unit of Ophthalmology, Institute of Inflammation and Ageing, College of Medical and Dental Sciences, Centre for Translational Inflammation Research, University of Birmingham Research Laboratories, Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.
² Birmingham Children's Hospital, Birmingham, West Midlands, UK.

PMID: 27247295
DOI: 10.1136/archdischild-2016-311102

No abstract available

Keywords: Evidence Based Medicine; Ophthalmology; School Health.

Publication types

Multicenter Study

MeSH terms

Adolescent
Child
China / epidemiology
Exercise*
Female
Humans
Male
Myopia / epidemiology*
Myopia / prevention & control*
Prevalence
Sunlight*