小児における近視の進行に対する低用量のアトロピン: 2017-2024年のランダム化プラセボ対照試験の系統的レビューとメタ解析
Luciano Magurno1, Maximiliano Lang1, Martina Zapata1
1Instituto de Investigaciones en Medicina Traslacional (IIMT), Facultad de Ciencias Biomédicas, Universidad Austral, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Pilar/Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Frontiers in medicine
|February 12, 2026
まとめ
低用量アトロピン (0.01%) の眼滴は,1年以上の小児における近視の進行を小さく,しかし有意に減少させます. 長期的な有効性と臨床的関連性を確認するためにさらなる研究が必要です.
科学分野:
- オフタルモロジック (眼科)
- 小児眼科は小児眼科である.
- クリニック・トライアル 臨床試験
背景:
- 子どもの近視の進行は,ますます懸念される問題となっています.
- 低用量アトロピン (0.01%) の眼滴は,潜在的な介入として調査されています.
- 0.01%のアトロピンの短期有効性および安全性データは依然として不確実です.
研究 の 目的:
- 最近のランダム化,プラセボ対照試験を体系的にレビューし,メタ分析する.
- 子どもの近視の進行を遅らせるための0.01%のアトロピンの有効性を評価する.
- 光恐怖症などの有害事象を含む安全性プロフィールを評価する.
主な方法:
- 2017年~2024年に発表された試験について,PubMed,Embase,Cochrane Libraryの体系的な検索を行いました.
- 子供における0.01%のアトロピンを比較した,ダブルブラインド,プラセボ対照試験の含有.
- ランダム効果モデルを用いたメタ解析で,少なくとも1年間にわたる屈折誤差と軸長変化に関するデータを集約した.
主要な成果:
- 9つの試験 (n=1,091) が含まれた.
- 球体等価折射 (MD +0.14 D/年) と軸長 (MD -0.05 mm/年) で統計的に有意な減少が観察されました.
- 発光恐怖症の有意な増加は認められなかったが,アトロピン群では発光恐怖症の発生率が高かった (9.8%対5.9%).
結論:
- 0.01%のアトロピンの眼滴は,近視の進行を減らすために,控えめで統計的に有意な短期的な利点を提供します.
- 観察された効果は異質であり,長期の研究が必要である.
- これらの発見の臨床的関連性と耐久性を決定するために,さらなる研究が必要である.
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