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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH
Volume 19, Issue 7, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/ijerph19073871
Keywords
periodontal disease; healthy eating index; body mass index; physical activity; healthy lifestyle
Funding
- National Research Foundation of Korea(NRF) - Korea government (MSIT) [2021R1G1A1094490]
- National Research Foundation of Korea [2021R1G1A1094490] Funding Source: Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information (KISTI), National Science & Technology Information Service (NTIS)
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This study found an association between healthy lifestyle and periodontal diseases in Korean adults. Each practice of healthy lifestyle, including diet quality, physical activity, and normal body weight, was significantly associated with periodontal diseases. Poor healthy lifestyle practices were identified as a risk factor for periodontal diseases. Therefore, improving healthy lifestyle should be emphasized in addition to oral hygiene for patients with periodontal diseases.
This study aimed to investigate the association between healthy lifestyle (HLS; i.e., diet quality, physical activity, normal weight) and periodontal diseases in Korean adults. Studying this association may help inform future intervention programs aimed at preventing the development of periodontal diseases. Raw data of the Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (KNHANES) VII (2016-2018) were used. Data from 12,689 adults aged 19 years and over who had a periodontal examination were analyzed. The associations between HLS and periodontal diseases were analyzed using multivariate logistic regression after adjusting for demographic and health factors as covariates. We found that each of the HLS (diet quality, physical activity, normal body weight) practices was significantly associated with periodontal diseases (OR: 1.32, 95% CI: 1.13-1.55; OR: 1.16, 95% CI: 1.04-1.30; OR: 1.26, 95% CI: 1.14-1.40, respectively). In particular, having poor HLS practices was identified as a risk factor for periodontal diseases (OR: 1.54, 95% CI: 1.10-2.15). HLS was associated with periodontal diseases. Thus, in addition to improving oral hygiene-the primary focus in the past-improving HLS should be emphasized for patients with periodontal diseases.
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