Effects of green tea based oral health strategies on disease activity in rheumatoid arthritis

Sanrong Lan; Shuang Jin; Rong Lin; Baochuan Chen; Fei Gao; Shengli Zhang; Lili Chen; Hong Li

doi:10.3389/fmed.2024.1413753

Effects of green tea based oral health strategies on disease activity in rheumatoid arthritis

Front Med (Lausanne). 2024 Nov 5:11:1413753. doi: 10.3389/fmed.2024.1413753. eCollection 2024.

Authors

Sanrong Lan^#^{1

2

3}, Shuang Jin^#^{1

2}, Rong Lin^#², Baochuan Chen⁴, Fei Gao^{1

3}, Shengli Zhang^{1

3}, Lili Chen^{1

2

3}, Hong Li²

Affiliations

¹ Shengli Clinical Medical College of Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou, China.
² The School of Nursing, Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou, China.
³ Fujian Provincial Hospital, Fuzhou, China.
⁴ Fujian Medical University 2nd Affiliated Hospital, Quanzhou, China.

^# Contributed equally.

Abstract

Aim: In this study, we aimed to evaluate oral health strategies in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients with periodontitis.

Methods: We enrolled 110 RA patients with periodontitis who were diagnosed in a Grade A tertiary hospital into an oral health strategies program. The control and test groups comprised 55 cases each. The management effect was evaluated by self-care ability, oral health-related quality of life, RA-related clinical indicators, and the DAS28 score. The control group received routine nursing, whereas the test group was in a self-health management program for 3 months.

Results: After the intervention, compared to the control group, the test group showed better self-care ability, oral health-related quality of life score, RA-related clinical indicators, and DAS28 score (P < 0.05).

Conclusion: Our oral health strategies program slowed down the progression of the disease and can be popularized in patients.

Keywords: oral care; periodontitis; rheumatoid arthritis; self-care ability; self-health management.

Grants and funding

The author(s) declare financial support was received for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. This work was supported by Joint Funds for the Innovation of Science and Technology, Fujian province of China (2023Y9317), and the Natural Science Foundation of the Fujian Province of China (2022J01403).