The Development of Dry Eye Disease after Surgery-Indicated Chronic Rhinosinusitis: A Population-Based Cohort Study

Chia-Yi Lee, Kun-Lin Yang, Chi-Chin Sun, Jing-Yang Huang, Hung-Chih Chen, Hung-Chi Chen and Shun-Fa Yang
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Chia-Yi Lee: Department of Ophthalmology, Show Chwan Memorial Hospital, Changhua 50093, Taiwan
Kun-Lin Yang: Department of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Kaohsiung 833, Taiwan
Chi-Chin Sun: Department of Ophthalmology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Keelung 20402, Taiwan
Jing-Yang Huang: Department of Medical Research, Chung Shan Medical University Hospital, Taichung 40201, Taiwan
Hung-Chih Chen: Department of Ophthalmology, Show Chwan Memorial Hospital, Changhua 50093, Taiwan
Hung-Chi Chen: Department of Ophthalmology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou 33305, Taiwan
Shun-Fa Yang: Department of Medical Research, Chung Shan Medical University Hospital, Taichung 40201, Taiwan

IJERPH, 2020, vol. 17, issue 11, 1-10

Abstract: We aim to evaluate the risk of dry eye disease (DED) occurrence in patients with surgery-indicated chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) via the national health insurance research database in Taiwan. After exclusion, patients with a diagnostic code of CRS and had received functional endoscopic sinus surgery (FESS) were regarded as having surgery-indicated CRS and enrolled in the study group, then each patient in the study group was age- and gender-matched to four non-CRS patients that served as the control group. The outcome was considered as the development of DED and Cox proportional hazard regression was used for the statistical analysis, which involved multiple potential risk factors of DED. A total of 6076 patients with surgery-indicated CRS that received FESS and another 24,304 non-CRS individuals were enrolled after exclusion. There were 317 and 770 DED events in the study group and the control group during the 16-year follow-up interval, and the study group demonstrated a significantly higher adjusted hazard ratio (1490, 95% confidence intervals (CI): 1.303-1.702) of DED development compared to the control group in the multivariable analysis. In addition, the cumulative probability analysis illustrated a positive correlation of DED occurrence and the disease period of surgery-indicated CRS ( p < 0.0001). In the subgroup analysis, both genders revealed a higher but not significant incidence of developing DED in the study group. In conclusion, the existence of surgery-indicated CRS will increase the risk of developing DED, which correlated to the disease interval.

Keywords: chronic rhinosinusitis; functional endoscopic sinus surgery; dry eye disease; ocular surface; population-based (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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