Complex therapy "dry eye syndrome" in patients with diabetes mellitus

Over the past decade, the prevalence of diabetes has increased significantly. Considering the role of metabolic disorders in the pathogenesis of diabetes mellitus and dry eye syndrome, it is safe to predict an increase in the number of patients suffering from corneal-conjunctival xerosis against the background of carbohydrate metabolism disorders. This is also facilitated by the fact that type 2 diabetes mellitus, which gives the main increase in morbidity, is constantly "getting younger", more and more covering a significant group of socially active part of the population, leading a modern lifestyle with all the side effects accompanying rapid urbanization.