Table 2.

Tear film lipid layer thickness and interferometer-derived parameters before and after warm compression treatment. (Analysis with the entire data set).

		Before Treatment	After Treatment	p-Value
Tear Film Lipid Layer Thickness (TFLLT)
	Average	62.04 ± 22.68	82.27 ± 20.83	0.002 *
	Maximum	78.12 ± 22.75	90.81 ± 13.71	0.016 *
	Minimum	54.31 ± 21.20	76.38 ± 23.09	0.001 *
Total blink frequency (TBF)		5.31 ± 5.28	4.85 ± 4.90	0.407
Complete blink frequency (CBF)		2.27 ± 4.51	2.19 ± 4.89	0.923
Partial blink frequency (PBF)		3.04 ± 2.24	2.65 ± 2.42	0.613
Partial blink rate (PBR)		0.67 ± 0.38	0.64 ± 0.39	0.943

The data are expressed as means ± standard deviation. * indicating a p-value < 0.05.