Disease Associations

Women's self-reports of gum disease are an indicator of low BMD

Published in Health and Medicine Week, April 4th, 2005

Self-reports of periodontal disease by postmenopausal women are an indicator of low bone mineral density (BMD), according to a study from Japan.

Akira Taguchi, DDS, PhD, Hiroshima University Hospital, and colleagues reported, "Relationships among self-reported periodontal status, number of teeth remaining, and bone mineral density of the lumbar spine and the femoral neck were evaluated in 253 Japanese postmenopausal women (mean ±SD, 56.6±7.7) recruited from the patients who visited our clinic for bone mineral assessment between 1997 and 2003."

The researchers found that women with gum disease symptoms had lower BMD than those without...

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