Association between a history of periodontitis and the risk of systemic lupus erythematosus in Taiwan: A nationwide, population-based, case-control study.

To examine the association between a history of periodontitis (PD) and incident systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE).We used 2003-2012 claims data from the Taiwanese National Health Insurance Database to identify 7,204 incident SLE patients during 2007-2012 as the study group, along with randomly sele...

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Main Authors: Yi-Da Wu, Ching-Heng Lin, Wen-Cheng Chao, Tsai-Ling Liao, Der-Yuan Chen, Hsin-Hua Chen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5653351?pdf=render