Orange-Colored Glasses (IMAGE)

West Virginia University

Orange-Colored Glasses

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WVU neuroscientists are studying whether wearing glasses with orange lenses at night can improve outcomes in cardiac patients. The glasses filter out blue light, which the researchers tied to inflammation, brain-cell death and greater mortality in a recent study based on animal models.

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