Tooth loss in institutionalized coronary heart disease patients of Punjab Institute of Cardiology, Lahore, Pakistan
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- 10.1016/j.jegh.2011.11.004How to use a DOI?
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- (MeSH); Tooth loss; Prevalence; Risk; Coronary heart disease
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Objective: To observe frequency and possible association of tooth loss with prevalent coronary heart disease in Pakistani population.
Methodology: Angiographically determined coronary heart disease (CHD) patients of Punjab Institute of Cardiology, Lahore, Pakistan, and healthy individuals were enrolled for status of tooth loss.
Results: Nine hundred and thirty six CHD patients and 595 healthy subjects with mean age of 51.9 ± 8.4 years were examined. Mean (±SD) tooth loss was significantly (P ⩽ 0.001) higher in cardiac patients (9.8 ± 9.2) than healthy subjects (6.8 ± 6.9) with odds ratio (OR) = 1.543 (95%CI = 1.985–2.851). Tooth loss was significantly (P ⩽ 0.001) associated with CHD males and females and cardiac patients with diabetes and smoking. After adjustment of age, gender, diabetes and smoking, subjects with CHD were more likely to have higher tooth loss.
Conclusion: Tooth loss was significantly associated with prevalent CHD independent of classic risk factors of age, gender, smoking and diabetes in this study sample.
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- © 2012 Ministry of Health, Saudi Arabia. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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TY - JOUR AU - Syed Akhtar Hussain Bokhari AU - Ayyaz Ali Khan AU - Javaid Ashraf Ansari AU - Rabail Alam PY - 2012 DA - 2012/01/04 TI - Tooth loss in institutionalized coronary heart disease patients of Punjab Institute of Cardiology, Lahore, Pakistan JO - Journal of Epidemiology and Global Health SP - 51 EP - 56 VL - 2 IS - 1 SN - 2210-6014 UR - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jegh.2011.11.004 DO - 10.1016/j.jegh.2011.11.004 ID - Bokhari2012 ER -