Relationship between ocular surface pain and corneal nerve loss in dry eye diabetics: a cross-sectional study in Shenyang, China.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Diabetes mellitus has been associated with increased dry eye disease (DED) and exacerbates DED pathology.

Objective

To investigate the potential relationship between corneal nerve loss and ocular pain among diabetic patients with dry eye (DE).

Design

A cross-sectional study.

Setting

He Eye Specialist Hospital, Shenyang, China.

Participants

This study recruited 124 eyes of 62 diabetic patients diagnosed with DED between August and October 2022.

Main outcome measures

Best-corrected visual acuity, intraocular pressure, non-invasive tear breakup time, tear meniscus height, tear film lipid layer, conjunctival hyperaemia (redness score), conjunctivocorneal epithelial staining (CS score), central corneal sensitivity and vitro confocal corneal

SUBMITTER: Qin G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10533686 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature