{"id":242033,"date":"2026-08-02T06:56:41","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T11:56:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/human-study-links-reduced-inflammation-to-later-myopia-onset"},"modified":"2026-08-02T06:56:41","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T11:56:41","slug":"human-study-links-reduced-inflammation-to-later-myopia-onset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/human-study-links-reduced-inflammation-to-later-myopia-onset","title":{"rendered":"Human study links reduced inflammation to later myopia onset"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/human-study-links-reduced-inflammation-to-later-myopia-onset.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>University of Oklahoma College of Medicine researcher Jody Summers, Ph.D., has long hypothesized that inflammation plays a role in the development of myopia, or nearsightedness, in which close-up vision is clear but distance vision is blurry. Her laboratory experiments have been convincing, and now she has preliminary human data to support the theory.<\/p>\n<p>Summers, a professor of cell biology, and R. Michael Siatkowski, M.D., MBA, professor and chair of the Dean McGee Department of Ophthalmology at the OU College of Medicine, reviewed the medical records of nearly 200 patients age 22 or younger who received eye exams at OU Health Dean McGee Eye Institute. About half were healthy, while the rest had juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) and were being treated with anti-inflammatory drugs. They were having exams because JIA, an autoimmune disease that causes chronic inflammation, can affect the eyes.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/iovs.arvojournals.org\/article.aspx?articleid=2813756\" target=\"_blank\">research<\/a> was presented at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arvo.org\/annual-meeting\/program-schedule\" target=\"_blank\">2026 ARVO Annual Meeting<\/a>, held in Denver, CO, May 3\u20137, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>University of Oklahoma College of Medicine researcher Jody Summers, Ph.D., has long hypothesized that inflammation plays a role in the development of myopia, or nearsightedness, in which close-up vision is clear but distance vision is blurry. Her laboratory experiments have been convincing, and now she has preliminary human data to support the theory. Summers, a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}