Fengping Liu, Jiayi Sheng, Lei Hu, Bin Zhang, Wei Guo, Yang Wang, Yifeng Gu, Peng Jiang, Hao Lin, Brako Lydia, Yifan Sun, Yifan Tang, Chaoqun Gu, Shichao Wei, Qixiao Zhai, Weiguo Chen, Ninghan Feng
BACKGROUND: The association between oral dysbiosis and chronic kidney disease (CKD) has gained increasing attention in recent years. Diabetes and hypertension are the most common conditions in CKD. However, a case-control study with matched confounding variables on the salivary microbiome in CKD and the influence of diabetes and hypertension on the microbiome has never been reported. METHODS: In our study, we compared the salivary microbiome profile between patients with CKD and healthy controls (HC) using 16S ribosomal DNA sequencing and examine its association with diabetes, hypertension, and immunity...
September 4, 2022: Journal of Translational Medicine