What is it about?
Strip meniscometry costs less than 1USD to evaluate both eyes. It can be done under 5 seconds and read by non specialised manpower. We show how this can be used in a group of 1000 garment factory workers in Bangladesh.
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Why is it important?
There is no single easy, cheap and rapid test for dry eye disease, a condition that affects up to half of the adult population.
Perspectives
There is no convenient tool that objectively evaluate dry eye in the community.
Prof Louis Tong
National University of Singapore
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This page is a summary of: Evaluation of Strip Meniscometry and Association with Clinical and Demographic Variables in a Community Eye Study (in Bangladesh), Journal of Clinical Medicine, October 2020, MDPI AG,
DOI: 10.3390/jcm9103366.
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