Dry Eye Disease Patients with Xerostomia Report Higher Symptom Load and Have Poorer Meibum Expressibility

• Ida G. Fostad ,

  * E-mail: ida_fostad@hotmail.com

  Affiliations Department of Oral Biology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, The Norwegian Dry Eye Clinic, Oslo, Norway

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4072-4607

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• Jon R. Eidet,

  Affiliations The Norwegian Dry Eye Clinic, Oslo, Norway, Department of Ophthalmology, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway

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• Tor P. Utheim,

  Affiliations Department of Oral Biology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, The Norwegian Dry Eye Clinic, Oslo, Norway, Unit of Regenerative Medicine, Department of Medical Biochemistry, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway, Department of Ophthalmology, Vestre Viken Hospital Trust, Drammen, Norway, Faculty of Health Sciences, Buskerud and Vestfold University College, Kongsberg, Norway

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• Sten Ræder,

  Affiliation The Norwegian Dry Eye Clinic, Oslo, Norway

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• Neil S. Lagali,

  Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

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• Edvard B. Messelt,

  Affiliation Department of Oral Biology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

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• Darlene A. Dartt

  Affiliation Schepens Eye Research Institute, Massachusetts Eye and Ear/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States of America

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