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ABSTRACT

Objective: to describe the behavior of the dry eye syndrome in diabetic patients from a health area.
Method: a cross-sectional, descriptive and observational study was carried out. The sample was made up by 134 diabetic patients who had been seen at “Mario Muñoz” Policlinics from September 2013 to February 2014. Sociodemographic variables as well as symptoms, signs and severity of the dry eye syndrome were all studied. Summary statistic methods were applied in qualitative variables. For data processing and information, a database according to Microsoft Excel statistical program 2003 was developed.
Results: in the sample, 88.8 % of the patients were older than 50 years, prevailing the 60-69 year-old group and females at a ratio of 97:37, that is, 2.6 women were diagnosed with diabetes mellitus per one man. Diabetes mellitus type 2 prevailed (97.8 %) and from this figure, 74.7 % presented with dry eye. Likewise, patients with dry eye symptoms (38 %) and less than 5 years of diabetes progression (57.4 %) were also predominant. Blurred vision was the most frequent symptom (62.7 %) and the conjunctival injection the most common sign (54.9 %). Mild dry eye syndrome prevailed in 98 % of cases.
Conclusions: diabetes mellitus is a real health problem. Diabetic people frequently present damage of the ocular surface and dry eye syndrome, therefore, they should go systematically to the ophthalmologist’s.