Table 4.

Ophthalmic Factors Hypothesized to Correlate with MGD

Factor	Reference
Aniridia	Jastaneiah and Al-Rajhi48
Chronic blepharitis (anterior or posterior)	Auw-Haedrich and Reinhard40
	Jackson38
	Mathers et al.37
	McCulley et al.39
	McCulley and Shine49
Contact lens wear	Arita et al.36
	Marren33
	Molinari and Stanek34
	Ong and Larke32
Demodex folliculorum	Czepita et al.50
	Kheirkhah et al.51
Eyelid tattooing	Kojima et al.52
Floppy eyelid syndrome	Gonnering and Sonneland53
Giant papillary conjunctivitis	Mathers and Billborough54
	Martin et al.55
	Molinari and Stanek34
Ichthyosis	Baden and Imber56
Salzmann's nodular corneal degeneration	Farjo et al.57
Trachoma	Bron and Tiffany58