Research Interest

Her research work enters a novel multidisciplinary research field with the main objective being to explore the relationship between chronic periodontal infection, systemic inflammatory markers and cardiovascular mortality in chronic kidney disease population. This project explores the link between periodontal inflammation, systemic inflammation, and cardiovascular events in the chronic kidney disease population. Since several non-traditional risk factors may modify the inflammatory status of these patients, possibly affecting the cardiovascular mortality rates, we hypothesized that periodontitis could be one of these non-traditional risk factors. As a result, her research team is assessing prevalence data of periodontal infection in this hemodialysis and pre-dialysis chronic kidney disease population and related mechanisms of increased systemic inflammation levels. Moreover, they investigate the effect of depressive symptoms on their periodontal and systemic inflammatory status.