Morning exposure to deep red light improves declining eyesight

Re:Morning exposure to deep red light improves declining eye... by gnicholas on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @05:00PM (#34618520)

Interesting point about the data only being available on request. That doesn't seem like the authors are super proud of their work. I wonder if they, or others, are doing larger follow-up studies, which could show whether this was a fluke or a glimmer of a real mechanism.

>but if there was something this significant you can bet that medical device companies would be all over it. The medical industry doesn't like to leave golden opportunities on the table.

Totally agree, except that mere sunlight could be a decent substitute for whatever they would develop and sell. Surely some people would pay top-dollar for the FDA-approved medical devices, but if sunlight provides similar benefits, lots of people (younger, poorer) would probably just stick with that.

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Re:Morning exposure to deep red light improves declining eye... by PragmaticPulp on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @07:56PM (#34620551)

> Interesting point about the data only being available on request. That doesn't seem like the authors are super proud of their work.

Noting that data is available upon request isn't exactly strange

But with an n=30 study, I'd expect a simple chart with the 15 control and 15 active participants on a plot.

This would make it easy to see if one group had, for example, 1-2 outliers that skewed the average. In small scale studies like this, you could have something like 1 patient who stayed in the hospital for 60 days in one group while everyone else has a more typical ~9 day stay. That outlier would skew the results to an extreme.

That's just one example. The real question is why they didn't include the simple chart, which would have allowed for us to see at a glance whether or not they had outliers.

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