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SynthesisMedicina oral, patologia oral y cirugia bucal2024

Association of vitamin D levels and oral lichen planus. Systematic review and meta-analysis.

S Egido-Moreno, J Valls-Roca-Umbert, F-J Parra-Moreno, E Jané-Salas, A Blanco-Carrión, J López-López

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Synthesis in Medicina oral, patologia oral y cirugia bucal, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Serum Catestatin Level as a Novel Biomarker of Oral Lichen Planus.Medical sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

S Egido-MorenoFaculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (Dentistry) University of Barcelona, Bellvitge University Campus Government Pavilion. Office 2-29 C/Feixa Llarga, s/n 08907, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain 18575jll@gmail.com.
J Valls-Roca-Umbert
F-J Parra-Moreno
E Jané-Salas
A Blanco-Carrión
J López-López

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundOral lichen planus (OLP) is an inmuno-mediated mucocutaneous chronical inflammatory disease. Multiple predisposing factors are considered, such as autoimmune response, microorganisms, medications, dental materials, psychological stress, genetic predisposition or nutritional deficiencies. The deficiency of vitamin D has been related to various autoimmune diseases like OLP. MATERIAL AND

methodsThe electronic search was conducted in the MEDLINE (Pubmed), Scopus, Cochrane Library and Web of Science databases. To assess any potential risk of bias, the authors critically appraised each study by the Newcastle-Ottawa Scale for cohort and case-control studies. Pooled analyses were performed using a random-effects model. Heterogeneity of the studies was assessed by the I2 statistics. Forest Plots were performed to graphically represent the difference between vitamin D concentrations in the OLP compared to healthy group, with a 95% confidence interval.

resultsAfter applying our inclusion and exclusion criteria, 7 articles were included in our review. The median concentration vitamin D in ng/ml found in serum for patients with OLP was of 26,6311,75ng/ml and for healthy patients was of 31,438,7ng/ml. Regarding the quantitative analysis, 7 studies were included. The difference in the concentration of vitamin D in healthy patients and patients with OLP statistically significant (Weighted Mean Difference (WMD): -6.20, 95% CI: -11.24 to -1.15, p=0.02 and I2 heterogeneity: 94%, p<0.00001).

conclusionsThe patients with OLP have statistically lower vitamin D levels than healthy patients.

Indexed as

Lichen Planus, OralVitamin DHumansVitamin D DeficiencyVitamin D

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PMID38907640
PMCPMC11365062

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