1. Relationship between dry mouth and hypertension
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Hirokazu Tanaka, Atsushi Takizawa, Takahiko Gibo, Ryo Kajihara, Hironori Sakai, Shin-ichi Yamada, Hiroshi Kurita, Junichi Yajima, Tomoki Kaneko, Sachiho Nagashio, Eiji Kondo, Takeshi Uehara, and Makiko Kawamoto
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medicine.medical_specialty ,business.industry ,Submandibular Gland ,030206 dentistry ,Arteriosclerosis ,Degeneration (medical) ,medicine.disease ,Dry mouth ,Gastroenterology ,Xerostomia ,03 medical and health sciences ,Stenosis ,0302 clinical medicine ,stomatognathic system ,030220 oncology & carcinogenesis ,Internal medicine ,Epidemiology ,Hypertension ,Medicine ,Humans ,In patient ,Fatty infiltration ,medicine.symptom ,business ,General Dentistry - Abstract
Salivary dysfunction, such as reduced salivary flow and an altered salivary composition, is caused by several diseases, medical conditions, and medications. The purpose of the present study was to clarify the relationship between hypertension and morphological changes in the submandibular glands. An epidemiological study was conducted to elucidate the relationship between hypertension and dry mouth. The effects of hypertension on morphological changes and the intima thickness of arteries in the submandibular glands were histopathologically investigated. Among 1933 subjects in the epidemiological study, 155 (8.0%) had dry mouth. A multivariate analysis revealed that dry mouth correlated with age (p
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- 2020