Outdoor activity and myopia in Singapore teenage children

@article{Dirani2009OutdoorAA,
  title={Outdoor activity and myopia in Singapore teenage children},
  author={Mohamed Dirani and Louis Tong and Gus Gazzard and Xiaoe Zhang and Audrey Chia and Terri L. Young and Kathryn Rose and Paul Mitchell and Seang Mei Saw},
  journal={British Journal of Ophthalmology},
  year={2009},
  volume={93},
  pages={1000 - 997},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:30301026}
}
Outdoor activity may protect against development of myopia in children, supporting recent Australian data as near work did not predict outdoor activity, and can be viewed as an independent factor and not merely the reciprocal of near work.
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