Findings from Chi-Mei Medical Center Update Understanding of Chronic Periodontitis (Patients with chronic periodontitis present increased risk for…

Findings from Chi-Mei Medical Center Update Understanding of Chronic Periodontitis (Patients with chronic periodontitis present increased risk for osteoporosis: A population-based cohort study in Taiwan)

By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Managed Care Weekly Digest -- Current study results on Digestive System Diseases and Conditions - Chronic Periodontitis have been published. According to news reporting out of Tainan, Taiwan, by NewsRx editors, research stated, "Chronic periodontitis is a bone destructive inflammatory disease with an adverse impact on general health and suggested underlying factors in common with osteoporosis. A few studies have examined the possible relationship between chronic periodontitis and osteoporosis; however, the results remain inconclusive."

Financial support for this research came from Chi Mei Medical Center (see also Digestive System Diseases and Conditions - Chronic Periodontitis).

Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research from Chi-Mei Medical Center, "This longitudinal follow-up study investigated the possible risk of patients with chronic periodontitis to present osteoporosis by using a population-based national health insurance data set in Taiwan. A random sample consisting of 1 million individuals was collected from Taiwan's national health insurance data set. From the sample, a total of 29?463 patients with newly diagnosed periodontitis from 2002 to 2008 were recruited and compared with a matched cohort of 58?926 patients without periodontitis. All patients were tracked until an osteoporosis diagnosis, or death, until the end of 2011. Associated factors, such as gender, age and comorbidities were examined. Cox proportional-hazards regression was performed to examine the risk of osteoporosis for patients with or without periodontitis. Within the 6-year follow-up period, the incidence rates of osteoporosis in the periodontitis cohort and comparison group were 2.72 and 1.66 per 1000 person-years, respectively. Mild, moderate and severe periodontitis were found to have 1.56, 2.09 and 2.08 times the risk of osteoporosis respectively compared to patients without periodontitis. Log-rank analysis revealed that patients with periodontitis had significantly higher cumulative incidence rates of osteoporosis than the control group (p <.0001)."

According to the news editors, the research concluded: "This study found that patients with periodontitis had a higher risk of being diagnosed with osteoporosis."

For more information on this research see: Patients with chronic periodontitis present increased risk for osteoporosis: A population-based cohort study in Taiwan. Journal of Periodontal Research, 2017;():. (Wiley-Blackwell - www.wiley.com/; Journal of Periodontal Research - onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1600-0765)

Our news journalists report that additional information may be obtained by contacting L.P. Mau, Division of Periodontics, Dept. of Dentistry, Chi Mei Medical Center, Liouying, Tainan, Taiwan. Additional authors for this research include Y.C. Kuan, Y.C. Tsai, J.J. Lin, G. Huynh-Ba, P.W. Weng, Y.S. Shieh, W.C. Cheng and R.Y Huang.

Keywords for this news article include: Asia, Tainan, Taiwan, Epidemiology, Osteoporosis, Health Insurance, Insurance Companies, Risk and Prevention, Chronic Periodontitis, Diagnostics and Screening, Mouth Diseases and Conditions, Periodontal Diseases and Conditions, Metabolic Bone Diseases and Conditions, Stomatognathic Diseases and Conditions.

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