Time spent outdoors in childhood related to myopia among young adults in the Swedish ABIS cohort.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Elucidate the prevalence of myopia among young adults from a birth cohort of Swedish children and its relationship to possible risk factors during their childhood.

Methods

Five thousand two hundred young adults, mean 23.4 years and 58% females, participating in the prospective birth cohort All Babies in Southeast Sweden (ABIS) answered a questionnaire including questions regarding health and physical activity, spectacle use, myopia and age at first optical correction. Questionnaires at previous follow-ups at ages 2-3, 5-6 and 8 years included information on type of housing, time outdoors, screen time and hours of reading. Myopia prevalence and associations with potential risk factors were analysed in univariate and multivariate regression models with Bonferroni's cor

SUBMITTER: Bro T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11810543 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature