BARINDER KAUR BAINS

DR. TANIA PARMAR, DR. TANIA PARMAR

Abstract

Purpose: To correlate prevalence of vitamin D deficiency in all the dry eye patients

Methods: After taking informed consents ,patients were enrolled in this study and divided into two groups using purposive sampling. Group 1 : vitamin D deficient patients which were referred from Orthopaedics and medicine department and group 2 : all dry eye diagnosed patients. In group 1, prevalence of dry eye and in group 2, prevalence of Vitamin D deficiency was calculated. Then association between Vit D deficiency and Dry eye calculated with Chi square test.

Results: A total of 101 patients were enrolled in the study . In group 1,out of 51 patients,10 patients (19.60%) fulfilled the criteria of Dry eye and in group 2, 17 out of 50 patients had vitamin D levels less than 12 ng/ml. We observed a significant association between Vitamin D deficiency and dry eye (p- value<0.01; OR - 101.1; 95% CI: 5.9 - 1721.0). Conclusion: There is a significant association between dry eye and vitamin D deficiency.