Screening of dry eye disease in visual display terminal workers during occupational health examinations: The Moriguchi study
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Screening of dry eye disease in visual display terminal workers during occupational health examinations: The Moriguchi study.
PURPOSE The aim of this study was to estimate the prevalence of dry eye disease (DED) in Japanese visual display terminal (VDT) workers and identify simple methods for screening DED during occupational health examinations. METHODS This study involved 369 (331 men and 38 women; mean age, 44.4 [8.8] years) workers engaged in PC development with approximately 6 hours of VDT use daily. The partic...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Occupational Health
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1341-9145,1348-9585
DOI: 10.1539/joh.14-0243-oa