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September 26, 2006
Chicken or the Egg?: Comorbid Periodontal and Heart Disease
Another new article on the relationship between cardiovascular health and periodontal disease.
K. Geismar, K. Stoltze, B. Sigurd, F. Gyntelberg, P. Holmstrup. Periodontal Disease and Coronary Heart Disease. Journal of Periodontology 2006, 77(9):1547-1554: http://www.joponline.org/doi/abs/10.1902/jop.2006.050405
This article applies a richer variety of measures of periodontal health / disease, some of which are novel to this area of inquiry.
"Full-mouth probing depth (PD), clinical attachment loss (CAL), bleeding on probing (BOP), and alveolar bone level (ABL) on radiographs were registered. ABL was stratified into ABL1 = ABL ≤2 mm; ABL2 = ABL >2 to ≤4 mm; and ABL3 = ABL >4 mm."
The article also finds that the association between periodontal disease and cardiovascular disease is also associated with diabetes and smoking.
Posted by pfa at September 26, 2006 07:27 PM