Table 1.

Association between the expression of TonEBP and inflammatory factors in patients with DED

	TonEBP
	Controls		DED
	R	P value	r	P value
IL‐6	0.400	0.223	0.776	0.0002
IL‐8	0.445	0.169	0.075	0.766
IL‐17A	−0.055	0.873	0.639	0.025
IL‐17F	−0.555	0.076	0.561	0.015
TNF‐α	−0.200	0.555	0.424	0.080
MMP9	0.552	0.098	0.456	0.057
MCP1	0.091	0.790	0.598	0.009

DED, dry eye disease.

Control – n = 11; DED – n = 9.

P < 0.05 is statistically significant; r, Spearman correlation coefficient. Bold indicates statistically significant correlation.