Daily contact lens slows myopia progression

Results presented at last weekend’s British Contact Lens Association clinical conference (June 9-11) on a three-year study into a pioneering contact lens therapy have shown the treatment was effective in slowing myopia progression in children by 59%.

The Coopervsion-led study assessed a specially-designed, dual-focus myopia control one-day soft CL in reducing the rate of progression of juvenile-onset myopia.

The lens, which has alternating visual correction and treatment zones, was effective in slowing myopia progression by 59% as measured by mean cycloplegic spherical equivalent (SE) and 52% as measured by mean axial elongation of the eye, when compared to the children in the control group wearing a single vision one-day CL.