Oral inflammation and exhaled nitric oxide fraction: a cross-sectional study

Tianyu Zhao; Elisabeth Thiering; Rudolf A Jörres; Marie Standl; Jan Kühnisch; Joachim Heinrich

doi:10.1183/23120541.00640-2022

Oral inflammation and exhaled nitric oxide fraction: a cross-sectional study

ERJ Open Res. 2023 Mar 6;9(2):00640-2022. doi: 10.1183/23120541.00640-2022. eCollection 2023 Mar.

Authors

Tianyu Zhao^{1

2

3

4}, Elisabeth Thiering^{3

5

4}, Rudolf A Jörres^{1

2}, Marie Standl^{2

3}, Jan Kühnisch⁶, Joachim Heinrich^{1

2

7}

Affiliations

¹ Institute and Clinic for Occupational, Social and Environmental Medicine, University Hospital, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany.
² Comprehensive Pneumology Center Munich (CPC-M), German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Munich, Germany.
³ Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany.
⁴ These authors contributed equally.
⁵ Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, Dr von Hauner Children's Hospital, Munich, Germany.
⁶ Department of Operative Dentistry and Periodontology, University Hospital, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany.
⁷ Allergy and Lung Health Unit, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.

Abstract

Oral inflammation is not associated with increased F _ENO in nonasthmatic children and adolescents. The observed inverse association implies that gingival bleeding might decrease F _ENO but this needs more study to be confirmed. https://bit.ly/3BhMP6f.