Updates in Dry Eye Disease: Diagnosing and Treating Patients with Ocular Surface Disease

ACTIVITY DESCRIPTION
Nearly 33% of patients in eye care clinics present with complaints about dry eye signs and symptoms. Clinicians remain challenged with both the diagnosis and best treatment options for dry eye disease (DED) because, to date, multiple causes of the disorder have been identified. Yet the proportion of US adults who reported having symptoms of DED seemed to plateau from 2015-2018, with about 41% noting occasional DED and 12% noting frequent DED. Extrapolating those figures to the US population equates to more than 135 million people with DED. This journal supplement addresses these topics.