Clinical Study
Presence of Dry Eye in Patients with Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis
Table 2
Characteristics of patients and healthy subjects.
| | Patients | Healthy subjects | | () | () |
| Age (mean ± SD) | 42 ± 11 | 41 ± 11 | 0.92 | Sex (M/F) | 7/103 | 5/95 | 0.6 | UER (%) | 11.8 | 1 | 0.03 | Proptosis (%) | 6.4 | 1 | 0.22 | OSDI (mean ± SD) | 32.7 ± 19.2 | 18.9 ± 14.8 | <0.05 | Schirmer (mean ± SD) | 10.9 ± 5.6 | 17.7 ± 6.8 | <0.05 | TBUT (mean ± SD) | 10.1 ± 2.6 | 13.2 ± 3.2 | <0.05 |
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Statistically significant. UER: upper eyelid retraction, TBUT: tear break-up time, OSDI: ocular surface disease index, M: male, and F: female.
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