People With Abdominal Obesity may have Higher Prevalence of Tooth Loss, reveals research
People With Abdominal Obesity may have Higher Prevalence of Tooth Loss, suggests study published in the Clinical and Experimental Dental Research.
Previous research has shown that people with obesity are at a higher risk of tooth loss; however, it is unclear whether abdominal obesity (e.g., high waist circumference) is associated with tooth loss among individuals without obesity. This study aims to investigate the association between abdominal obesity and tooth loss among people who are not obese.
Two cross‐sectional surveys were used: the United States' National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 1999–2012 (n = 19,436) and the Scottish Health Survey (SHeS) 2008–2014 (n = 4243). Tooth loss was measured by the number of remaining teeth: 20 and over, 1–19, and edentulous. Abdominal obesity was defined by categorizing waist circumference into three levels: normal, high, and very high. Ordinal logistic regression was used to model the association between tooth loss and abdominal obesity.
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