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Remaining teeth, cardiovascular morbidity and death among adult Danes
- Source :
- Preventive Medicine. 47:156-160
- Publication Year :
- 2008
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2008.
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Abstract
- Objective To examine if number of remaining teeth was associated with development of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality over 5–12 years. Methods Prospective observational study among 1474 men and 1458 women born 1922, 1932, 1942 or 1952 from The Danish MONICA follow up study (MONItoring trends in and determinants of CArdiovascular disease) in 1987–88 and 1993–94. Subjects were followed in Danish registers for fatal and non-fatal cardiovascular disease, coronary heart disease or stroke. Results Tooth loss was strongly associated with incidence of stroke, and to a lesser extent, incidence of cardiovascular disease and coronary heart disease, during averagely 7.5 years of follow-up. Compared to those with most teeth remaining, the edentulous suffered > 3-fold increased Hazard (HR) of developing stroke (HR = 3.25; 95% CI: 1.48–7.14), whereas the risk of developing any cardiovascular disease was increased by 50% (HR = 1.50; 95% CI: 1.02–2.19). Risk for coronary heart disease was increased by 31%, but was not significant, after the adjustment for education, age, smoking, diabetes, alcohol intake, systolic blood pressure and body mass index (HR = 1.31; 95% CI: 0.74–2.31). Associations were similar for men and women. Conclusion These findings may have implications for future prevention of cardiovascular disease in general, and of stroke in particular, because tooth loss may serve as a simple, and early means to identify high-risk individuals.
- Subjects :
- Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Epidemiology
Denmark
Disease
Tooth Loss
Surveys and Questionnaires
Diabetes mellitus
Internal medicine
medicine
Tooth loss
Humans
Prospective Studies
Stroke
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
business.industry
Incidence (epidemiology)
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Middle Aged
medicine.disease
Blood pressure
Cardiovascular Diseases
Cardiology
Female
Observational study
Mouth, Edentulous
medicine.symptom
business
Body mass index
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 00917435
- Volume :
- 47
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Preventive Medicine
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....e2a9eecb38ab10eebf8103a0ca1f96bd