Prevalence and risk factors of symptomatic dry eye disease in Lebanon
| Autor: | Wissam Ghach, Mona Aridi, Ahmed Sherry |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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medicine.medical_specialty Population Disease 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Risk Factors Internal medicine Surveys and Questionnaires Prevalence Medicine Humans Ocular Surface Disease Index Lebanon education education.field_of_study business.industry Smoking Tobacco General Medicine Ophthalmology Cross-Sectional Studies Tobacco exposure 030221 ophthalmology & optometry Population study Dry Eye Syndromes Female business 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Optometry |
| Zdroj: | Contact lensanterior eye : the journal of the British Contact Lens Association. 43(4) |
| ISSN: | 1476-5411 |
| Popis: | To estimate the prevalence of symptomatic dry eye disease (DED) and investigate its associated risk factors in the Lebanese population.Population-based cross-sectional study of 602 participants from Lebanon aged 18 years and older. Ocular Surface Disease Index (OSDI) questionnaire on dry eye symptoms was used to evaluate the prevalence of symptomatic DED. Chi-square test was used to investigate the association between DED status and risk factors such as age, gender and smoking tobacco.The percentage of DED among the study population (271 males and 331 females) was 36.4% with OSDI score ≥ 13 (mild to moderate and severe OSDI status). The most reported DED symptom in the population was sensitivity to light. Smokers reported higher DED symptoms than non-smokers. Older and smoker populations were more likely to report significantly higher OSDI scores (p 0.05). Moreover, gender was not statistically associated with DED (p 0.05).Symptomatic DED is substantial in Lebanon. It is statistically associated with the age of population and their tobacco exposure. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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