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HOYA VISION CARE DISCLOSES “The visual system is getting

MIYOSMART RESULTS very used to being focused, at
that point, with our younger
children, where their vision is
HOYA Vision Care has declared the results of a three-year still developing. We feel the
follow up clinical study on its award winning MiYOSMART message being sent to the
spectacle lens with patented Defocus Incorporated Multiple visual system – to the eyes and
Segments (D.I.M.S) Technology. the brain – is that they need to
be focused about short working
The new study was conducted by the Centre for Myopia distance. So why wouldn’t they
Research at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University and follows- adapt? Why wouldn’t the visual
up on the two-year study which formerly proved evidence of system adapt and become more
the effectiveness of the lens in slowing down the progression of nearsighted? More myopic?”
myopia on average by 60 per cent in children ages 8-13.
The sooner a child
According to the report published in the British Journal of is diagnosed with
Ophthalmology, the three-year follow-up study was conducted nearsightedness, the higher
on 120 children in Asia, including 65 from the original group their risk for developing more
using the MiYOSMART lens who took part in the previous study serious eye conditions, she
and 55 children who moved from using a single-vision lens for emphasised.
two years to the MiYOSMART lens in the third-year of the study.
“Cataracts, glaucoma,
On the completion of the third year, results in the original retinal detachment – this isn’t
group of children using MiYOSMART lens showed that slowing about me just saying ‘oh this
in myopia progression over time was sustained and the group isn’t a good idea, children
that moved from regular single-vision to the MiYOSMART shouldn’t be on screen.’ It’s
spectacle lens showed a prompt and noteworthy slow-down in a public health concern that
the progression of myopia. in the future, we are going to
have a large proportion of our
“The results of the three-year follow-up study on the
MiYOSMART spectacle lens are very positive providing evidence population with vision that is
that the lens continues to slow myopia progression in children, not correctable because they
including the impressive results when switching from a single started with spectacles when
vision lens,” said Griff Altmann, Chief Technology Officer at HOYA they were five or six.”
Vision Care. “As myopia in children is on the rise globally, HOYA Dr. Jones urged people
Vision Care is proud to be a leader in developing a safe, easy and to continue to get their eyes
effective way to manage the growing problem.” and the eyes of their children,
checked regularly during the
pandemic.
NEAR SIGHTEDNESS ON THE She explained that children

RISE AMONG CHILDREN often did not realise or express
that they could not see well
and hence, even their parents
Doctors have noticed a steady increase in the number could be completely unaware
of people reporting near sightedness, particularly among that their child had a vision
children. The doctors believe that excessive screen time is the problem.
main culprit for this rise.
“Routine eye care has to
Dr Debbie Jones from the University of Waterloo’s School be the take-home message
of Optometry & Vision Science says that the children are whenever you’re discussing any
sitting too close to a screen and this is causing the increase. vision problems at all,” she said.

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