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JOURNAL OF CLINICAL PERIODONTOLOGY
Volume 39, Issue 10, Pages 940-946Publisher
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-051X.2012.01923.x
Keywords
all-cause mortality; men; periodontal attachment loss; periodontitis
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- Northern Ireland NHS Research and Development Fund
- British Heart Foundation [PG/09/002/26056] Funding Source: researchfish
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Objective To investigate the association between periodontitis and mortality from all causes in a prospective study in a homogenous group of 60- to 70-year-old West European men. Methodology A representative sample of 1400 dentate men, (mean age 63.8, SD 3.0 similar to years), drawn from the population of Northern Ireland, had a comprehensive periodontal examination between 2001 and 2003. Men were divided into thirds on the basis of their mean periodontal attachment loss (PAL). The primary endpoint, death from any cause, was analysed using KaplanMeier survival plots and Cox's proportional hazards model. Results In total, 152 (10.9%) of the men died during a mean follow-up of 8.9 (SD 0.7) years; 37 (7.9%) men in the third with the lowest PAL (<1.8 similar to mm) died compared with 73 (15.7%) in the third with the highest PAL (>2.6 similar to mm). The unadjusted hazard ratio (HR) for death in the men with the highest level of PAL compared with those with the lowest PAL was 2.11 (95% CI 1.423.14), p similar to
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