UK Trends in Inflammatory Eye Disease
by Hannah Joy on
March 17, 2021 at 3:05 PM
U.K. incidence of new inflammatory eye disease cases have fallen by about one-third over the past 22 years, reveals a new study.
Scleritis is a vision-threatening inflammatory condition of the white portion of the eye, or the sclera, that is thought to be the result of an over-reaction of the body's immune system.
A new study published in
Arthritis & Rheumatology provides estimates of the incidence and prevalence of scleritis between 1997 and 2018 in the U.K.
‘Individuals who developed scleritis often had immune-related diseases before or after being diagnosed with scleritis.’