Putting the focus well and truly on children’s health and wellbeing, award-winning spectacle lens manufacturer, HOYA Lens UK (HOYA), is continuing to raise awareness across the UK and Ireland of the life-impacting and progressive eye-condition; myopia more commonly known as short-sightedness.

Myopia increases more rapidly in children under 10 and if left untreated, can potentially lead to long-term vision problems (1). Following the results of a six-year follow-up clinical study conducted on 90 children in Asia, HOYA is proud to reveal that MiYOSMART, its myopia management spectacle lens for children, is proven to slow down myopia progression (2).  HOYA now has over 2 million MiYOSMART spectacle lenses purchased by parents across the world (3).  

Incorporating the non-invasive D.I.M.S. Technology, the revolutionary MiYOSMART spectacle lens provides vision correction and features an almost invisible hexagonal treatment zone. By slowing down the progression of myopia children can enhance their enjoyment of day-to-day life by seeing clearly, something which many of us take for granted. 

HOYA has always been passionate about eyecare and with Myopia predicted to affect half of the world’s population by 2050, now more than ever HOYA is on a mission to curb myopia (4).

To celebrate the results of HOYA’s six-year clinical study, 5 lucky readers are in with the chance of winning a One4All Kids Favourites Voucher worth £100.

Sources:
(1) Jong M., He M., Holden B.A., Li W., Sankaridurg P., Chen X., Navadiluth T., Smith E.L., Morgan I.G., Ge J. The rate of myopia progression in children who become highly myopic. Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 2014;55(13):3636
(2) Lam CSY, Tang WC, Tse DY, Lee RPK, Chun RKM, Hasegawa K, Qi H, Hatanaka T, To CH. Defocus Incorporated Multiple Segments (DIMS) spectacle lenses slow myopia progression: a 2-year randomised clinical trial. British Journal of Ophthalmology. Published Online First: 29 May 2019. doi: 10.1136/bjophthalmol-2018-313739
(3) Based on number of MiYOSMART lenses sold per Hoya sales data on file as of June 2022.
(4) Holden B. A. et al. Global Prevalence of Myopia and High Myopia and Temporal Trends from 2000 through 2050. Ophthalmology. 2016 May;123(5):1036-1042.
(5) Lam CSY, Tang WC, Zhang A, Tse D, To CH. Myopia control in children wearing DIMS spectacle lens: 6 years results. The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) 2022 Annual Meeting, May 1-4, Denver, US.