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Unstimulated whole saliva flow for diagnosis of primary Sjögren’s syndrome: time to revisit the threshold?

BACKGROUND: Unstimulated whole saliva (UWS) flow rate is one of the ACR/EULAR 2016 criteria for primary Sjögren’s syndrome (pSS). With a single threshold of ≤ 0.1 mL/min, UWS flow does not take into account the age- and sex-related physiological variations. Furthermore, it has a low sensitivity for...

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Autores principales: Lacombe, Valentin, Lacout, Carole, Lozac’h, Pierre, Ghali, Alaa, Gury, Aline, Lavigne, Christian, Urbanski, Geoffrey
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7041275/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32093745
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13075-020-2132-3