What The Study Did: Researchers investigated whether spending a year aboard the International Space Station was associated with worsening of spaceflight-associated structural changes to the eye.
Authors: Brandon R. Macias, Ph.D., of the NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston, is the corresponding author.
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(doi:10.1001/jamaophthalmol.2021.0931)
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