A patient-reported questionnaire developed in a German early arthritis cohort to assess periodontitis in patients with rheumatoid arthritis.

Johanna CallhoffThomas DietrichMariya ChubrievaJens KlotscheAngela Zink

Published in: Arthritis research & therapy (2019)

This patient-reported six-item score has moderate diagnostic properties to study PD in RA patients in epidemiological settings. We propose to use the score as a measure of periodontitis without applying cut-off values.

Keyphrases

patient reported
rheumatoid arthritis
prognostic factors
systemic lupus erythematosus
disease activity
ankylosing spondylitis