KeratoScoop (Rebecca's blog)

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  1. Prevalence of dry eye in rheumatoid arthritis

    Holy toledo. Look at those whacko results.

    On the one hand:
    Fifty-two percent of patients had a history of dry eye and dry mouth
    On the other hand:
    Dry eye interpreted from OSDI, Schirmer 1 test, tear break-up time and rose bengal staining was 16.4%, 46.7%, 82% and 3.3% respectively.
    Does it not strike you as really weird that four different dry eye tests' results ranged from 3.5% to 82%?

    How can you have an established history ...
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