Volume : V, Issue : VI, June - 2015

CLINICAL ASSOCIATION BETWEEN DRY EYE AND DIABETES MELLITUS

Pradeep. Pakalapati, Sharmila, Akanksha Gupta, Nalinodbhavi Bolla

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 OBJECTIVE: To study the prevalence of dry eyes and dry eye related ocular surface disorders in diabetic patients. SETTING: Tertiary eye care center at asram medical college hospital. PATIENTS AND METHODS: A cross–sectional clinical study consisting of 150 diabetic patients was undertaken to investigate prevalence of dry eyes. RESULTS: 150 diabetic patients participated in this study of which 50 (33.3%) were type I diabetes and 100 (66.6%) were type II diabetes. Majority of type I patients were in the age range of 11–20 years (54%), where as majority of type II patients were in the range of 51–60 years (42%). the duration of diabetes in both type I and type II patients. 44% of type I and 37.3% of type II patients had duration of disease ranging between 1–5 yrs. The prevalence of dry eyes in younger age group is 2.15 times more compared to older age group in type I diabetics (P=0.468). The prevalence of dry eyes in older age (>50) years group is 2.27 times more in type II diabetics (P=0.095) The crude odds ratio for the association between dry eyes and increasing age (p<0.001, OR 1.02; 95% CI 1.00 to 1.03) was significant. CONCLUSION: Diabetes and dry eyes appears to be a common association. Predominantly milder grade of dry eye is seen in type I diabetes mellitus and mild to moderate in type 2 diabetes mellitus.

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Pradeep. Pakalapati, Sharmila, Akanksha Gupta, Nalinodbhavi Bolla Clinical Association Between Dry Eye and Diabetes Mellitus Indian Journal of Applied Research, Vol.5, Issue : 6 June 2015

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