Daily morning light therapy is associated with an increase in choroidal thickness in healthy young adults

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Read, Scott A
Pieterse, Emily C
Alonso-Caneiro, David
Bormann, Rebekah
Hong, Seentinie
Lo, Chai-Hoon
Richer, Rhiannon
Syed, Atif
Tran, Linda
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Ambient light exposure is one environmental factor thought to play a role in the regulation of eye growth and refractive error development, and choroidal thickness changes have also been linked to longer term changes in eye growth. Therefore in this study we aimed to examine the influence of a 1-week period of morning light therapy upon choroidal thickness. Twenty two healthy young adult subjects had a series of macular choroidal thickness measurements collected with spectral domain optical coherence tomography before, and then following a 7-day period of increased daily light exposure. Increased light exposure was delivered through the use of commercially available light therapy glasses, worn for 30 minutes in the morning each day. A significant increase in subfoveal choroidal thickness (mean increase of +5.4 ± 10.3 μm) was found following 7-days of increased daily light exposure (p = 0.02). An increase in choroidal thickness was also observed associated with light therapy across the central 5 mm macular region. This study provides the first evidence in the human eye that daily morning light therapy results in small magnitude but statistically significant increases in choroidal thickness. These changes may have implications for our understanding of the impact of environmental factors upon eye growth.

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Scientific Reports

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8

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Clinical sciences

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OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY

AXIAL LENGTH

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Read, SA; Pieterse, EC; Alonso-Caneiro, D; Bormann, R; Hong, S; Lo, C-H; Richer, R; Syed, A; Tran, L, Daily morning light therapy is associated with an increase in choroidal thickness in healthy young adults, Scientific Reports, 2018, 8 (1)

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