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No Genetic Causal Association Between Periodontitis and Arthritis: A Bidirectional Two-Sample Mendelian Randomization Analysis.
Frontiers in immunology - 1 Jan 2022
Yin Kang-Jia, Huang Ji-Xiang, Wang Peng, Yang Xiao-Ke, Tao Sha-Sha, Li Hong-Miao, Ni Jing, Pan Hai-Feng
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Objectives: Periodontitis (PD) has been linked to arthritis in previous epidemiological observational studies; however, the results are inconclusive. It remains unclear whether the association between PD and arthritis is causal. The purpose of this study was to investigate the causal association of PD with arthritis, including rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and osteoarthritis (OA). Methods: We performed a two-sample...
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