Association Between Rheumatoid Arthritis Disease Activity and Periodontitis Defined by Tooth Loss: Longitudinal and Cross-Sectional Data From Two Observational Studies.

Autor: Albrecht K; German Rheumatism Research Centre, Programme Area of Epidemiology and Health Care Research, Berlin, Germany., de Pablo P; University of Birmingham, Institute of Inflammation and Ageing, Research into Inflammatory Arthritis Center Versus Arthritis and MRC-Versus Arthritis Centre für Muskuloskeletal Ageing Research, Birmingham, West Midlands, UK., Eidner T; Jena University Hospital, Jena, Germany., Hoese G; Rheumatology practice, Stadthagen, Germany., Wassenberg S; Rheumatology Centre, Ratingen, Germany., Zink A; German Rheumatism Research Centre, Programme Area of Epidemiology and Health Care Research, Berlin, Germany., Callhoff J; German Rheumatism Research Centre, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Institute for Social Medicine, Berlin, Germany.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Arthritis care & research [Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken)] 2021 Sep 30. Date of Electronic Publication: 2021 Sep 30.
DOI: 10.1002/acr.24799
Abstrakt: Objective: To analyze the effect of tooth loss/periodontitis on disease activity in early and established rheumatoid arthritis (RA).
Methods: Participants of the Course And Prognosis of Early Arthritis (CAPEA) early arthritis cohort reported their number of teeth at baseline. The number of teeth had been validated as a predictor of periodontitis. Clinical end points, including disease activity score (Disease Activity Score in 28 joints using the erythrocyte sedimentation rate [ESR]), swollen joint count (SJC), ESR, and C-reactive protein level were collected at baseline, 3, 6, 12, 18, and 24 months. We used linear mixed regression models to estimate the association between tooth loss and clinical end points over time in early arthritis. For established RA, we analyzed cross-sectional data from the German National Database (NDB). All models accounted for age, sex, smoking, seropositivity, education level, and disease duration (only NDB).
Results: Among 1,124 CAPEA participants with early arthritis, those with higher tooth loss were older, more often male, smokers, and seropositive, and they had higher disease activity and inflammation markers at baseline. Tooth loss was associated with higher disease activity and ESR values over time. Inflammatory markers decreased comparably across tooth loss categories. Glucocorticoid use was higher among those with more tooth loss, whereas dose reduction was similar across tooth loss categories. Among 7,179 NDB participants with longstanding RA, disease activity and inflammation markers but not SJC were significantly higher in patients with more tooth loss.
Conclusion: Although we observed an association between tooth loss and disease activity scores and inflammation markers in early and established RA, longitudinal results suggest that tooth loss does not hamper treatment response.
(© 2021 The Authors. Arthritis Care & Research published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of American College of Rheumatology.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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