Word: nearsightedness
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If your kids are under two, turn off all the lights in the room when you put them to bed at night. Don't even leave a night light on, unless you want to increase significantly the chances that your children will grow up nearsighted and have to wear glasses...
Almost as a lark, the investigators decided to ask the parents of 479 of their patients about the nighttime lighting in their children's bedrooms. It was a shot in the dark, but what they found was truly eye opening. While 10% of the kids who slept in darkness before...
The most important thing to keep in mind with observational studies like this is that they are the scientific equivalent of gossip. Subjects A and B show up together, which may be significant but is more likely to be an innocent coincidence. In this study, for example, the investigators didn...
...common practice may not be such a good idea. Research from the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center and the Children's Hospital of Phildelphia indicates that children who regularly sleep with the light on before they reach the age of two exhibit a higher rate of developing myopia, or nearsightedness, later in life. In fact, says the team, the more intense the light, the greater the chance of myopia. Of children who had slept with a night light before the age of two, 34 percent became myopic; of those who had slumbered under a room light, the figure rose...
So what should parents do? First thing, says TIME medical columnist Christine Gorman, is to stay calm. "Don?t panic over the study," she says. While the research may ultimately shed light on the importance of darkness during sleep, for the moment "this is just an observational study," says Gorman...