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Table 4 One-year incidence of new coding for dry eye ocular infection, or both dry eye and ocular infection,* n (%)

From: Incidence of new coding for dry eye and ocular infection in open-angle glaucoma and ocular hypertension patients treated with prostaglandin analogs: Retrospective analysis of three medical/pharmacy claims databases

Index drug

Total patients

Dry eye

Ocular infection

Both

Latanoprost

15,933

600 (3.8)

1670 (10.5)

60 (0.4)

Travoprost-Z

7670

298 (3.9)

821 (10.7)

23 (0.3)

p-value

-

0.48

0.86

0.31

  1. *Categories are not mutually exclusive. See Table 1 for definitions of dry eye and ocular infection.
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BMC Ophthalmology

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