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技巧改变了口腔健康和死亡率之间的关联
Yukako Tani1, Takafumi Yamamoto2,3, Taro Kusama3,4
1Department of Global Health Promotion, Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU), 1-5-45, Yushima, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8519, Japan.
Age and ageing
|September 19, 2023
概括
良好的技巧可以帮助抵消与老年人口腔功能不佳相关的死亡风险增加. 这一发现凸显了技巧在保持健康方面的重要性,尽管口腔健康面临挑战.
科学领域:
- 老年学是一门学科.
- 公共卫生 公共卫生
- 营养科学 营养科学
背景情况:
- 糟糕的口腔健康是增加死亡率的重要风险因素.
- 口腔功能障碍可能导致饮食限制,可能会影响整体健康.
- 生活方式因素,如技巧在减轻健康风险中的作用需要进一步调查.
研究的目的:
- 调查技巧是否会改变日本老年人口腔健康状况与死亡率之间的关联.
- 为了确定是否有更好的能力的个人可以更好地管理口腔功能障碍的健康后果.
- 探索口腔功能,技巧和死亡风险之间的相互作用.
主要方法:
- 来自日本老年学评估研究的1万121名65岁至101岁的日本成年人进行了为期3年的随访.
- 用牙数和三个口腔功能来评估口腔健康:吞困难,功能和口腔干燥.
- 用经过验证的尺度评估的技巧;使用调整混因子的考克斯回归模型分析死亡率.
主要成果:
- 减少牙数量和口腔功能受损都与较高的死亡风险有显著联系.
- 技巧表明,它对口腔功能和死亡率之间的关联产生了改变作用.
- 技巧低且口腔困难有两种或更多的个体,死亡风险比为2.06,而技巧高的人则为1.25.
结论:
- 口腔功能不佳会增加死亡风险,特别是在具有有限技能的个体中.
- 提高技巧可以作为一种保护因素,减轻与口腔功能障碍相关的死亡风险.
- 旨在提高技能的干预措施可能是减少老年人口口腔健康相关健康差异的策略.
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