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Clinical trialNCT00000113CompletedPhase 3Interventional

Correction of Myopia Evaluation Trial (COMET)

SponsorStony Brook UniversityEnrollment469Myopia
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Summary

The lay summary the sponsor registered on ClinicalTrials.gov.

To evaluate whether progressive addition lenses (PALs) slow the rate of progression of juvenile-onset myopia (nearsightedness) when compared with single vision lenses, as measured by cycloplegic autorefraction. An additional outcome measure is axial length, as measured by A-scan ultrasonography. To describe the natural history of juvenile-onset myopia in a group of children receiving conventional treatment (single vision lenses).
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Investigators

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Sites

4 registered facilities, with the per-site recruitment status where the registry publishes one. ClinicalTrials.gov does not publish per-site enrollment counts.

United States
  • University of Alabama-Birmingham, School of Optometry

    Birmingham, Alabama, United States

  • New England College of Optometry

    Boston, Massachusetts, United States

  • Pennsylvania College of Optometry

    Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

  • University of Houston, College of Optometry

    Houston, Texas, United States

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Drugs studied

No drug or biological interventions are in our data for this study. It may test a procedure, device or behavioral intervention, or the intervention list isn't in our current snapshot. See the registry record ↗. Why? →

Registration & key dates

Registry attributes as recorded on the ClinicalTrials.gov study record.

Start
30 Sept 1997
Primary completion
31 Oct 2001
Completion
30 Sept 2013
Last update posted
15 Apr 2016
Registered enrollment
469
Registry id
NCT00000113
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Source: ClinicalTrials.gov, via the CTTI AACT database, data as of 11 Nov 2026. Registry facts are shown as registered by the study sponsor; FindMyKOL does not interpret them.