Article Text

Download PDFPDF

Response to: ‘Response to: ‘Alcohol is not the missing link between Porphyromonas gingivalis related periodontitis and radiologic progression in early Rheumatoid arthritis’ by Hillion et al’ by Marotte and Paul
Free
  1. Alexandre Bellier1,
  2. Xavier Romand2,
  3. Athan Baillet2
  1. 1 Unité de Qualité et d’Evaluation Médicale, CHU Grenoble Alpes, La Tronche, Grenoble, France
  2. 2 Univ Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, CHU Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble INP, TIMC-IMAG, Grenoble, France
  1. Correspondence to Professor Athan Baillet, Univ.Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, CHU Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble 38000, France; abaillet{at}chu-grenoble.fr

Statistics from Altmetric.com

Request Permissions

If you wish to reuse any or all of this article please use the link below which will take you to the Copyright Clearance Center’s RightsLink service. You will be able to get a quick price and instant permission to reuse the content in many different ways.

We thank Marotte et al 1 for their interest in our study.2 They suggested to check interactions between Porphyromonas gingivalis serology, smoking and human leucocyte antigen (HLA) status as in the Etude et Suivi des Polyarthrites Indifférenciées Récentes (ESPOIR) cohort and the association between P. gingivalis serology status and radiological progression. In the ESPOIR cohort, P. gingivalis serology was increased in patients who are non-smokers and with structural damage.3

As suggested, we checked interactions …

View Full Text

Linked Articles