Table 5.
Severity of dry eye, according to the OSDI, in the study participants by medication (n = 312).
| Pharmaceutical Agent | Normal | Mild | Moderate | Severe |
aOR * p-Value ** |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | ||
| Psychotropics | 9 | 6.7 | 8 | 10.4 | 6 | 13.33 | 15 | 26.8 | =1.41 =0.002 |
| Anti-histamines | 12 | 9.0 | 5 | 6.5 | 6 | 13.3 | 10 | 17.9 | =0.156 |
| Analgesics | 6 | 4.5 | 3 | 3.9 | 4 | 8.9 | 5 | 8.9 | =0.433 |
| Contraceptives (females only) |
19 | 23.7 | 8 | 12.5 | 7 | 20.6 | 12 | 29.3 | =0.184 |
| Other hormones | 13 | 9.7 | 7 | 9.1 | 5 | 11.1 | 9 | 16.1 | =0.572 |
* aOR—as above. ** Subjects who used an agent versus the subjects who did not.