Break-up time and lissamine green epithelial damage in 'office eye syndrome'. Six-month and one-year follow-up investigations.
Break-up time and lissamine green epithelial damage were re-investigated among 90 office workers after six months in 60 and after one year in 73. There was fairly good correlation with a rank correlation of about 0.40 between both break-up time and lissamine green staining epithelial damage at the initial investigation and at the two re-investigations. All correlations were found highly statistically significant. The results indicate that the manifestation of dry eyes in office workers to a great extent is chronic and without seasonal variation, at least as long as the subject remains in the office environment.
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National Institute of Occupational Health, Glostrup Hospital, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
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D000395:Air Pollutants, Occupational; D016902:Air Pollution, Indoor; D002908:Chronic Disease; D003228:Conjunctiva / Q000473:pathology*; D015352:Dry Eye Syndromes / Q000175:diagnosis*; D004848:Epithelium / Q000473:pathology; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008086:Lissamine Green Dyes; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis*; D013666:Tears / Q000502:physiology
D000395:Air Pollutants, Occupational; D008086:Lissamine Green Dyes