Prevalence and risk factors of dry eye in 79,866 participants of the population-based Lifelines cohort study in the Netherlands.
CONCLUSIONS: This study on dry eye confirmed but also refuted many risk factors from smaller epidemiological studies, and discovered numerous new risk factors in multiple etiological categories. The finding that dry eye symptoms are particularly common in young adults is concerning, and warrants further study.
PMID: 32376389 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: The Ocular Surface - Category: Opthalmology Authors: Vehof J, Snieder H, Jansonius N, Hammond CJ Tags: Ocul Surf Source Type: research
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