Abstract:Purpose: The purpose of this study was to analyse whether outdoor (OD) exposure could exert a protective effect against the development of myopia and HM, in two different cohorts of university students that differ in the time of OD activities in their study programs. Moreover, CUVAF, as an objective measure of time spent outdoors, was also investigated in this cohort.
Methods: A cross‐sectional observational study was carried out using two different cohorts of students, one of medical students (MS) and the oth… Show more
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