Purpose: To conduct a systematic review and meta-analysis to assess the effects of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic–related lifestyle on myopia outcomes in children to young adults. Methods: A systematic search was conducted on PubMed, Embase, and the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials databases (with manual searching of reference lists of reviews). Studies included assessed changes in m...
Purpose: To evaluate the trans-ancestry portability of current myopia polygenic risk scores (PRS) to predict high myopia (HM) and myopic macular degeneration (MMD) in an Asian population. Design: Population-based study. Subjects: A total of 5,894 (2,141 Chinese, 1,913 Indians, and 1,840 Malays) adults from the Singapore Epidemiology of Eye Diseases (SEED) study were included in the analysis. The mean age was 57...
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to develop an Asian polygenic risk score (PRS) to predict high myopia (HM) in Chinese children in the Singapore Cohort of Risk factors for Myopia (SCORM) cohort. Methods: We included children followed from 6 to 11 years old until teenage years (12–18 years old). Cycloplegic autorefraction, ultrasound biometry, Illumina HumanHap 550, or 550 Duo Beadarrays, demographics, and...