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Tooth loss in institutionalized coronary heart disease patients of Punjab Institute of Cardiology, Lahore, Pakistan

Authors
Syed Akhtar Hussain Bokharia, *, pdplhr@yahoo.com, Ayyaz Ali Khanb, ayyazk@brain.net.pk, Javaid Ashraf Ansaric, dr_javedansari110@yahoo.com, Rabail Alamd, rabail.alam@yahoo.com
aFaculty of Dentistry, The University of Lahore, Lahore, Pakistan
bDepartment of Oral Health Sciences, Sheikh Zayed Postgraduate Medical Institute, Lahore, Pakistan
cDepartment of Community Dentistry, Margalla College of Dentistry, Rawalpindi, Pakistan
dInstitute of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, The University of Lahore, Lahore, Pakistan
*Corresponding author. Address: 22-Rewaz Garden, Lahore, Pakistan. Tel.: +92 300 4640240.
Corresponding Author
Syed Akhtar Hussain Bokharipdplhr@yahoo.com
Received 27 August 2011, Accepted 5 November 2011, Available Online 4 January 2012.
DOI
10.1016/j.jegh.2011.11.004How to use a DOI?
Keywords
(MeSH); Tooth loss; Prevalence; Risk; Coronary heart disease
Abstract

Objective: To observe frequency and possible association of tooth loss with prevalent coronary heart disease in Pakistani population.

Methodology: Angiographically determined coronary heart disease (CHD) patients of Punjab Institute of Cardiology, Lahore, Pakistan, and healthy individuals were enrolled for status of tooth loss.

Results: Nine hundred and thirty six CHD patients and 595 healthy subjects with mean age of 51.9 ± 8.4 years were examined. Mean (±SD) tooth loss was significantly (P ⩽ 0.001) higher in cardiac patients (9.8 ± 9.2) than healthy subjects (6.8 ± 6.9) with odds ratio (OR) = 1.543 (95%CI = 1.985–2.851). Tooth loss was significantly (P ⩽ 0.001) associated with CHD males and females and cardiac patients with diabetes and smoking. After adjustment of age, gender, diabetes and smoking, subjects with CHD were more likely to have higher tooth loss.

Conclusion: Tooth loss was significantly associated with prevalent CHD independent of classic risk factors of age, gender, smoking and diabetes in this study sample.

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© 2012 Ministry of Health, Saudi Arabia. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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Publication Date
2012/01/04
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