Efficacy and safety of PERIOdontal treatment versus usual care for Nonalcoholic liver disease: protocol of the PERION multicenter, two-arm, open-label, randomized trial

Abstract Background We report the first protocol for a multicenter, randomized comparison study to compare the efficacies of periodontal scaling and root-planing treatment against that of tooth-brushing treatment for nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) (PERION: PERIOdontal treatment for NAFLD)....

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Main Authors: Yohei Kamata, Takaomi Kessoku, Tomoko Shimizu, Takashi Kobayashi, Takeo Kurihashi, Satsuki Sato, Syotaro Kuraji, Norio Aoyama, Tomoyuki Iwasaki, Shogo Takashiba, Nobushiro Hamada, Toshiro Kodama, Toshiyuki Tamura, Satoshi Ino, Takuma Higurashi, Masataka Taguri, Takeharu Yamanaka, Masato Yoneda, Haruki Usuda, Koichiro Wada, Atsushi Nakajima, Masato Minabe
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2020-03-01
Series:Trials
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13063-020-4201-y