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Association between asthma and periodontitis in the US adult population: A population-based observational
Parth D Shah1, Victor M Badner2, Kevin L Moss3
1Division of Population Health & Community Dentistry, Department of Dentistry and Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, Jacobi Medical Center in affiliation with the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, USA.
Aim:
To examine the association between asthma and periodontitis in a nationally representative sample of adults in the United States.
Materials And Methods:
Data obtained from 10,710 adult men and women who participated in National Health and Nutritional Examination Survey from 2009 to 2014 were analysed. Asthma was measured based on self-reported physician diagnosis. Periodontitis was the outcome of interest. It was classified into mild, moderate, and severe periodontitis according to the updated CDC/AAP case definitions. Multivariable models were developed to examine the association of asthma with periodontitis while controlling for age, race/ethnicity, gender, education, income, body mass index, diabetes, and smoking. Odds ratio (OR) and respective 95% confidence interval (CI) were calculated. Replication was performed by differently classifying the outcome using another system called periodontal profile class (PPC).
Results:
Current asthmatics, in reference to never asthmatics, had lower odds of severe periodontitis [(adjusted OR = 0.51, 95% CI = 0.30-0.87) and (adjusted OR = 0.58, 95% CI = 0.35-0.97) as classified using CDC/AAP case definitions and PPC system, respectively]. However, there was no statistically significant association between asthma and any other forms of periodontitis (p value >.05).
Conclusions:
In the United States, current-asthmatic adults were less likely to have severe periodontitis as compared with never-asthmatic adults. Further research is required to fully understand this association.
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