Research Article: Symptomatic Dry Eye Disease and Associated Factors Among Adult Diabetic Patients in Adare General Hospital, Hawassa City, Southern Ethiopia,
Introduction:
Dry eye disease (DED) is a multifactorial ocular surface disease due to tear film instability and hyperosmolarity, ocular surface inflammation, damage, and neurosensory abnormalities. DED is classified as aqueous-deficient dry eye, when dryness is caused by decreased tear production, and evaporative dry eye, which results from increased evaporation of the precorneal tear film; however, clinically, mixed forms of dry eye are very common.
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