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New paper: Emmetropization and nonmyopic eye growth
Early ocular growth is a complex developmental choreography performed by the components of the eye. Most eyes start with a hypermetropic refractive error at birth, but the growth rates of the ocular components, guided by visual cues, will slow in such a way that this refractive error decreases du…
New paper: Refractive development I: biometric changes during emmetropization
The eye undergoes many rapid changes during childhood, while maintaining a refractive error close to emmetropia during the whole process. This work uses the combined (averaged) data of 295 papers to derive regressions that describe ocular growth from before birth until adulthood. Rozema JJ. Refracti…
New article: Differences in ocular biometry between urban and rural children matched by refractive error: the Shandong Children Eye Study
Using the data from the Shandong Children Eye Study, we established that children living in the countryside and those living in cities have fundamentally different eye structure, despite having the exact same refraction. Mediation analysis demonstrated that this difference is associated with the w…