A smartphone app’s crowdfunded research helped identify dry eye and its risk factors, according to a study.
The DryEyeRhythm app, available in Japan and the United States on iOS platforms, collects demographic characteristics, medical history and lifestyle information, as well as daily subjective dry eye symptoms.
This cross-sectional study used data from 4,454 subjects in Japan, 3,294 with risk factors for symptomatic dry eye and 1,160 without symptomatic dry eye; of the 3,294 with risk factors, 899 had diagnosed symptomatic dry eye and 2,395 had undiagnosed symptomatic dry eye. Dry eye
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