A Randomized Trial of Soft Multifocal Contact Lenses for Myopia Control: Baseline Data and Methods.

ABSTRACT:

Significance

The Bifocal Lenses In Nearsighted Kids (BLINK) study is the first soft multifocal contact lens myopia control study to compare add powers and measure peripheral refractive error in the vertical meridian, so it will provide important information about the potential mechanism of myopia control.

Purpose

The BLINK study is a National Eye Institute-sponsored, double-masked, randomized clinical trial to investigate the effects of soft multifocal contact lenses on myopia progression. This article describes the subjects' baseline characteristics and study methods.

Methods

Subjects were 7 to 11 years old, had -0.75 to -5.00 spherical component and less than 1.00 diopter (D) astigmatism, and had 20/25 or better logMAR distance visual acuity with manifest refraction

SUBMITTER: Walline JJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5607949 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature