Association of clinical measures of periodontal disease with blood pressure and hypertension among postmenopausal women

Autor: Joshua H Gordon, Robert J. Genco, Jean Wactawski-Wende, Kathleen M. Hovey, Thomas R. Cimato, Michael J. LaMonte, Jiwei Zhao
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: Journal of Periodontology. 89:1193-1202
ISSN: 0022-3492
DOI: 10.1002/jper.17-0562
Popis: BACKGROUND Hypertension and periodontal disease are common conditions among postmenopausal women. Periodontal disease has been found associated with hypertension in previous studies, but data in postmenopausal women is limited. METHODS We assessed the cross-sectional associations of clinically measured periodontal disease with prevalent hypertension and measured systolic blood pressure (SBP) among 1341 postmenopausal women enrolled in the Buffalo Osteoporosis and Periodontal Disease (OsteoPerio) study, an ancillary study of the Women's Health Initiative-Observational Study. RESULTS Clinical attachment level (CAL) and number of teeth missing were positively associated with SBP among those not taking antihypertensive medication in crude and multivariable adjusted linear regression models (both P
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