MONTEREY, Calif. — While the gut microbial composition of individuals with early markers of Sjögren’s syndrome differed from that of a control group in a study presented here, no apparent dry eye microbiome signature was seen.
“Our aim was to evaluate the gut microbial composition of individuals with early or late markers of Sjögren’s syndrome compared to controls without [dry eye],” Courtney Goodman and colleagues said in a poster presented at the Women in Ophthalmology Summer Symposium.
The prospective, cross-sectional study compared gut microbial