Significance: Exposure to blue light before bedtime is purported to be deleterious to various aspects of human health. In chicks, blue evening light stimulated ocular growth, suggesting a role in myopia development. To further investigate this hypothesis, we asked if brief blue light altered the compensatory responses to hyperopic defocus.
Purpose: Previous work showed that several hours' evening exposure to blue light stimulated ocular growth in chicks, but morning exposure was only effective at a lower illuminance. By contrast, rearing in blue light has inhibited ocular growth in untreated eyes and eyes exposed to form deprivation or defocus. We studied the effects of brief exposures to blue light on the compensation to hyperopic defocus.
Methods: Chicks wore monocular negative lenses (-10 D) starting at age 10 days. They were subsequently exposed to blue light (460 nm) for 4 hours in the morning or evening for 8 to 9 days ("dim," 200 lux[morning, n = 9; evening, n = 11]; "bright," 600 lux[morning, n = 8; evening, n = 20]); controls wore lenses in white light (n = 14). Ultrasonography was done on days 1, 5, 8, and 9 for "evening" groups and days 1, 6, and 8 for "morning." All data are reported as interocular differences (experimental minus fellow eyes). Refractions were measured on the last day.
Results: For evening exposure, dim blue light enhanced the axial compensation at all times (change in axial length: day 6: 465 vs. 329 μm/9 days, analysis of variance P < .001, P = .03; day 9: 603 vs. 416 μm/9 days, analysis of variance P < .001; P < .05). Bright blue light had a transient inhibitory effect (day 5: 160 vs. 329 μm; P < .005). Refractive errors were consistent with axial growth, with dim causing more myopia than bright (-9.4 vs. -4.7 D; P < .05). Morning blue light had no significant effect.
Conclusions: We speculate that these findings reflect a complex interaction between illuminance, defocus, and time of day.
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