%0 Journal Article
%T Association of Oral Health and Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors ¡°Results from a Community Based Study on 5900 Adult Subjects¡±
%A Hamid Najafipour
%A Tayebeh Malek Mohammadi
%A Foad Rahim
%A Ali Akbar Haghdoost
%A Mitra Shadkam
%A Mahdi Afshari
%J ISRN Cardiology
%D 2013
%R 10.1155/2013/782126
%X Objectives. This study aimed to determine the association between some oral health status as a risk factor for cardiac diseases and other cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors in a sample of Iranian population in 2011. Methods. The study recruited 5900 inhabitants who aged 15¨C75 years old of Kerman city through a population based cluster sampling. Having collected informed consent, participants were interviewed for CVD risk factors. Some oral health indicators such as DMFT, Gingival Inflammation index, and Community Periodontal Index were assessed. The association between oral health indices and CVD risk factors was tested using multivariate regression models. Results. The mean age of participants was 33.5 years, and 45.1% were male. Moderate gingival inflammation was observed in 67.6% of participants. Presence of sub- or supragingival calculus was more common (90%) in participants. Older age (RR from 2.7 to 3.88), cigarette smoking (RR = 1.49), and high blood glucose (RR = 1.41) showed an increased risk for oral diseases after adjustment for different covariates including established CVD risk factors. Conclusion. The study results showed an increase in periodontal diseases in the presence of some CVD risk factors. Therefore there may be a bilateral but independent association for both conditions and common risk factor approach preventive program is highly recommended. 1. Introduction It is estimated that three-quarter of the global burden of cardiovascular disease (CVD) occurs in developing countries [1]. Sadly, it seems that in most of developing countries the mortality and morbidity due to CVD would have a sharp increase in the following decades because of the high prevalence of risk factors and also aging of their populations. Iran, a developing country with more than 70 million population, is also facing with the epidemic of CVD [2]. The prevalence of coronary artery disease is as high as 20% in its capital, Tehran [3]. Myocardial infarction is among the first top three causes of death [4], and based on the results of a dynamic model, it seems that around 53 myocardial infarction per million population occurs daily in Iran [5]. CVD has a complex etiology determined by numerous risk factors that are strongly affected by genetic, socio-economic, and environmental variables [6]. In between, the role of inflammation in CVD has been investigated in many contexts in recent years and increasing body of evidence is being gathered in favor of the role of inflammation in the pathogenesis of CVD [7]. In this regards mouth pathogens and periodontal disease
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