Systemic Inflammatory Markers in Patients with Metabolic Syndrome with and Without Dry Eye Disease: An Observational Comparative Study.

Diagnostics (Basel) · 2026 · PMC13409617 · PMID 42510099

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fell just short of statistical significancep = 0.051so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)

A comparable trend was seen for the monocyte/HDL ratio, though the difference fell just short of statistical significance ( p = 0.051).

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nominally significantno p-value reported

In addition, because several inflammatory markers were examined without correction for multiple testing, some nominally significant associations may represent chance findings.

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