Table 1.
Clinical characteristics of the study participants.
Table 2.
Comparison of TEWL and time-to-plateau between the two groups according to the existence of MGD.
Fig 1.
Correlation between TEWL and TBUT (A), Schirmer 1 test scores (B), NEI (National Eye Institute) scores (C), LLT (D), tear osmolarity (E), and time-to-plateau (F) in all participants. (B) Only Schirmer 1 test scores showed a statistically significant correlation with TEWL (p = 0.004). TEWL, transepidermal water loss; LLT, lipid layer thickness; TBUT, tear break-up time.
Fig 2.
Correlation between TEWL and Schirmer 1 test scores (A), correlation between TBUT tear break-up time) and LLT (B) in all participants. (A) TEWL was correlated with Schirmer 1 test values (p = 0.004). (B) TBUT was significantly correlated with LLT (p = 0.004) and tended to decrease when LLT was abnormally thick. The red line represents the logically estimated scatterplot smoothing curve. TEWL, transepidermal water loss; LLT, lipid layer thickness; TBUT, tear break-up time.