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Dry eye signs and symptoms in night-time workers

PURPOSE: To determine the effect of night-time working on dry eye signs and symptoms. METHODS: A total of 50 healthy subjects completed a dry eye questionnaire and underwent clinical examinations including basic Schirmer's test and tear breakup time (TBUT) test on two consecutive days, before a...

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Autores principales: Makateb, Ali, Torabifard, Hamed
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5735241/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29270473
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.joco.2017.05.003
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description PURPOSE: To determine the effect of night-time working on dry eye signs and symptoms. METHODS: A total of 50 healthy subjects completed a dry eye questionnaire and underwent clinical examinations including basic Schirmer's test and tear breakup time (TBUT) test on two consecutive days, before and after the night shift (12-hrs night-shift). RESULTS: All dry eye symptoms were aggravated significantly after the night shift (P < 0.05). Conjunctival redness increased after the night shift (P = 0.001). TBUT reduced significantly after the night-shift (8.06 vs 10.98 s) (P = 0.001). Basic Schirmer's test increased after the night-shift compared to its values before the shift (19.04 vs 17.34 mm) (P = 0.037). CONCLUSION: Our study showed that night-time working can cause tear film instability and exacerbation of dry eye symptoms.
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spelling pubmed-57352412017-12-21 Dry eye signs and symptoms in night-time workers Makateb, Ali Torabifard, Hamed J Curr Ophthalmol Article PURPOSE: To determine the effect of night-time working on dry eye signs and symptoms. METHODS: A total of 50 healthy subjects completed a dry eye questionnaire and underwent clinical examinations including basic Schirmer's test and tear breakup time (TBUT) test on two consecutive days, before and after the night shift (12-hrs night-shift). RESULTS: All dry eye symptoms were aggravated significantly after the night shift (P < 0.05). Conjunctival redness increased after the night shift (P = 0.001). TBUT reduced significantly after the night-shift (8.06 vs 10.98 s) (P = 0.001). Basic Schirmer's test increased after the night-shift compared to its values before the shift (19.04 vs 17.34 mm) (P = 0.037). CONCLUSION: Our study showed that night-time working can cause tear film instability and exacerbation of dry eye symptoms. Elsevier 2017-05-29 /pmc/articles/PMC5735241/ /pubmed/29270473 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.joco.2017.05.003 Text en Copyright © 2017, Iranian Society of Ophthalmology. Production and hosting by Elsevier B.V. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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