Feb 04, 2020

Intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells (ipRGCs) control non-visual light responses (e.g. pupillary light reflex and circadian entrainment). Patients with diabetic retinopathy (DR) show re...

Feb 04, 2020

Wide field swept source OCT angiography (WF SS-OCTA) imaging was compared with ultrawide-field (UWF) fluorescein angiography (FA) imaging to better understand changes in retinal non-perfusion before a...

Feb 04, 2020

Machine learning (ML) is increasingly being studied for the screening, diagnosis, and management of diabetes and its complications. Although various models of ML have been developed, most have not led...

Feb 04, 2020

Earth's biocultural diversity comprising biological, cultural and linguistic diversities is being eroded quickly. Our ability to recognise and appreciate what is remaining is crucial for its survival....

Feb 04, 2020

To report the baseline characteristics of participants enrolled in the Treatment of Advanced Glaucoma Study (TAGS) DESIGN: Pragmatic randomised control trial (RCT).Patients with open angle glaucoma pr...

Feb 04, 2020

People with visual impairment or blindness face a wide range of daily barriers, both at school and at work.This article describes the development process of an online resource, addressing Occupational...

Feb 04, 2020

We aimed to evaluate the severity and prognosis of posterior segment injury between left-behind children (LBC) and guarded children (NLBC).A retrospective, controlled analysis of a case series was per...

Jan 31, 2020

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of acute exercise on environmentally induced symptoms of dry eye. Twelve participants without dry eye disease volunteered to complete three exp...

Jan 31, 2020

Saffron (Crocus sativus L.) has been traditionally used in food preparation and as a medicinal plant. It currently has numerous therapeutic properties attributed to it, such as protection against isch...

Jan 31, 2020

The accumulation of excessive reactive oxygen species can exacerbate any injury of retinal tissue because free radicals can trigger lipid peroxidation, protein damage and DNA fragmentation. Increased ...

Jan 31, 2020

This study investigated the relationship strength between hypothyroidism and cardiovascular and renal outcomes in diabetic patients. The electronic databases PubMed, EmBase, and Cochrane library wer...

Jan 31, 2020

Recently, a wide range of biological and pathological roles of long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) have been discovered. However, the potential role of circulating lncRNAs H19 and GAS5 in type 2 diabetes me...

Jan 31, 2020

Recent movement behaviour guidelines prescribe the optimal time spent in physical activity, screen time, and sleep across a 24-hr period. The proportion of youth with visual impairments meeting 0, 1, ...

Jan 31, 2020

Typically, individuals have an attentional bias toward the left visual field. This is often absent in individuals with attention-deficit/hyperactivity (ADH) disorder (ADHD). We used a motion-induced b...

Jan 31, 2020

Mechanisms behind pigmentary glaucoma, a form of early-onset glaucoma that may potentially lead to severe visual impairment or blindness, are poorly understood.To calculate the single-nucleotide polym...

Jan 31, 2020

Familial exudative vitreoretinopathy (FEVR) is an inheritable retinal vascular disease, which often leads to severe vision loss and blindness in children. However, reported mutations can only account...

Jan 31, 2020

Congenital blindness modifies the neural basis of language: "visual" cortices respond to linguistic information, and fronto-temporal language networks are less left-lateralized. We tested the hypothes...

Jan 30, 2020

China is undergoing a massive transition toward an urban and industrial economy. These changes will restructure the demographics and economy which will eventually influence the future patterns of dis...

Jan 30, 2020

Retinoblastoma is an ocular tumor in infants with cancer predisposition. Treatment of the rare tumor needs to be optimized for ocular preserved survival without second primary malignancy (SPM).We stud...

Jan 30, 2020

Dry eye disease (DED) is a complex disease with multiple etiologies and variable symptoms, having ocular surface inflammation as its key pathophysiologic step. Despite advances in our understanding of...