Table 1.

Demographic and Clinical Characteristics of the Patients Presenting with a Dry Eye Syndrome

Characteristic	Result
No of Patients	220
Age (years)
Median	59
Range	10-91
Interquartile Range	22-88
Gender (% female)	75.9
Race (% white)	84.6
Follow-up (months)
Median	7
Range	0-54
Interquartile Range	0-45
Type of Dry Eye Syndrome (%)
Aqueous Tear Deficiency	10.9
Evaporative Dry Eye	2.3
Combined Aqueous Tear Deficiency and Evaporative Dry Eye	86.8
Medical Conditions Associated with Dry Eye Syndrome (%)
Any Rheumatic Disease	25.9
Primary Sjögren’s syndrome	10.9
Rheumatoid Arthritis	11.4
Other*	3.6
Any Non-Rheumatic Conditions	77.3
Thyroid Disease	23.2
Menopause	50.4
Other†	2.7

^*Includes sarcoidosis (4 patients), psoriasis (1), ulcerative colitis (1), CREST syndrome (1), and ankylosing spondylitis (1).

^†Includes diabetes (4 patients), and graft-versus-host disease (2).