EyeconX Ideas! - Smokers More Likely to Face Surgery with Thyroid Eye Disease http://ideas.eyeconx.net/story.php?title=smokers-more-likely-to-face-surgery-with-thyroid-eye-disease Smokers with thyroid eye disease are twice as likely to require strabismus surgery as nonsmokers. RathieRajendram, MRCOphth, from the Orbital Unit, Moorfields Eye Hospital, London, United Kingdom, and colleagues examined the records of 425 of the hospital's thyroid eye disease patients who were seen by the same clinical team from 1997 through 2002. Researchers studied data for the 378 patients who... Fri, 09 Dec 2011 13:13:45 EST en