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Article: Dry eye incidence.(Clinical report)
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- Bandolier
- Article date:
- March 1, 2005
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Dry eye syndrome is common in older people, and affects quality of life. Until recently there have been no longitudinal population-based studies that might inform on the likely incidence in a primary care adult population. We now have one [1], and we can say that in people aged 48 to 91 years, 13% will develop dry eye over five years.
Study
Beaver Dam in Wisconsin is the site of a population based eye study that began in 1988. Almost 6,000 adults were then aged 43 to 84 years, and were examined initially and followed up in the years 1988-1990, 1993-1995 and 1998-2000.
Dry eye information was first collected in 1993-1995, when 2,414 people were examined and found ...