Table 1 Dry eyes syndrome and coexisting eye diseases among 2095 men and women of the Heinz Nixdorf Recall study, Germany, January 2018–September 2021.

Characteristic	Overall		Men		Women
Number of subjects, n %	2095	100	1034	49.4	1061	50.6
Age (years) mean (SD)	74.0	6.9	74.2	6.9	73.8	7.0
Age groups (years) n, %
62–66	364	17.4	169	16.3	195	18.4
67–71	514	24.5	253	24.5	261	24.6
72–76	427	20.4	209	20.2	218	20.6
77–81	447	21.3	231	22.3	216	20.4
82–86	253	12.1	129	12.5	124	11.7
87–91	90	4.3	43	4.2	47	4.4
Physician-confirmed dry eyes n, %
No	1420	70.5	809	81.1	611	60.0
Yes	595	29.5	188	18.9	407	40.0
Missing	80		37		43
Frequency of feeling dry eyes n, %
Constantly	71	3.6	22	2.2	49	4.9
Often	245	12.4	70	7.1	175	17.5
Sometimes	763	38.5	351	35.7	412	41.2
Never	904	45.6	540	54.9	364	36.4
Missing	112		51		61
Frequency of feeling eye irritation n, %
Constantly	35	1.7	14	1.4	21	2.1
Often	214	10.6	73	7.4	141	13.8
Sometimes	1083	53.7	520	52.4	563	55.1
Never	683	33.9	386	38.9	297	29.1
Missing	80		41		39
Dry eye syndrome
No	1361	68.5	780	79.6	581	57.7
Yes	625	31.5	200	20.4	425	42.3
Missing	109		54		55
Treatment in the recent 12 months among subjects with dry eye syndrome (n = 625)
No treatment	182	29.7	78	39.4	104	25.1
Ophthalmologist (MD)	234	38.2	70	35.4	164	39.6
Ophthalmologist (MD) and self treatment	50	8.2	11	5.6	39	9.4
MD of another speciality	2	0.3	1	0.5	1	0.2
Pharmacist	15	2.5	3	1.5	12	2.9
Pharmacist and MD of another speciality	11	1.8	3	1.5	8	1.9
Self treatment	109	17.8	30	15.2	79	19.1
Self treatment and pharmacist	9	1.5	2	1.0	7	1.7
Missing	13		2		11
Self-reported coexisting cataract
No	1179	57.8	613	60.5	566	55.1
Yes	861	42.2	400	39.5	461	44.9
Missing	55		21		34
Self-reported coexisting glaucoma
No	1826	91.5	917	92.3	909	90.6
Yes	170	8.5	76	7.7	94	9.4
Missing	99		41		58
Self-reported coexisting macula degeneration
No	1898	94.6	942	95.2	956	94.0
Yes	109	5.4	48	4.9	61	6.0
Missing	88		44		44

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