Gut dysbiosis is prevailing in Sjögren's syndrome and is related to dry eye severity.
Jayoon MoonSe Hyun ChoiChang Ho YoonMee-Kum KimPublished in: PloS one (2020)
Sjögren's syndrome showed significant gut dysbiosis compared to controls and environmental dry eye syndrome, while dry eye patients showed compositional changes of gut microbiome somewhere in between Sjögren's syndrome and controls. Dysbiosis of the gut microbiota was partly correlated to dry eye severity.