Anxiety and depression are correlated with DES, demonstrating that DES is an important public health problem that merits increased attention and research.
IPL treatment improves the symptom score of patients, associated ocular-surface indexes, MG function, and MG macrostructure as well as eyelid hygiene. And IPL treatment particularly improves MG microstructure and decreases MG inflammation in MGD patients.
DED is frequent in patients with depressive and anxiety disorders, especially patients who are older, have longer duration of psychiatric disorder, and use an SSRI. Psychiatric disorders and use of antidepressants should be considered in the differential diagnosis of DED.
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