The lifestyle changes brought by the COVID-19 pandemic have caused a dramatic increase in the incidence and severity of dry eye disease, or DED.
“Ophthalmologists can no longer overlook or underestimate the problem. DED is a disease, it is a growing concern, and we must be equipped to understand, diagnose and treat it appropriately before it becomes a chronic, irreversible condition,” Stefano Barabino, MD, PhD, head of the Ocular Surface and Dry Eye Center at Sacco Hospital, Milan University, Italy, told Healio/OSN.
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