Study: 4% of Older Men Have Dry Eyes

About 4 out of 100 men age 50 and older have dry eye disease, a new study finds. In men age 80 and older, it was even more common. The study used information from the long-running Physicians’ Health Study. It included 25,444 U.S. men. The research was published June 8. It appeared in the journal Archives of Ophthalmology.