Table 1 of Azartash, Mol Vis 2011; 17:756-767.

Table 1. Sample demographics and tear film data.

  Sex Ethnicity      
Age Male Female Caucasian Asian Hispanic Afri. Amer. Schein score (0–24) TBUT (s) Corneal stain (0–20)
Normal eyes (n=18)* 12 6 10 5 3 0      
Median 26.5             3.0 7.1 0.85
Mean 29.0             3.4 8.0 1.3
SD 8.3             1.8 3.2 1.5
Dry eyes (n=22)** 7 15 10 5 5 2      
Median 32.0             9.5 4.2 5.6
Mean 38.8             9.3 4.6 5.2
SD 13.8             4.0 2.5 2.2

*Did not satisfy more than one of the dry criteria (i.e., symptoms >7/24, TBUT ≤7.0 s, or corneal staining ≥4.0 on a 0–20 scale). **Severity designation is described in Methods and is assigned a level 1–4 based on the DEWS 2007 Definition and Classification report [41]. Thus, 3 subjects were Level 1, 12 Level 2, 7 Level 3, and none were Level 4.

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