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Oral health and mortality risk in the institutionalised elderly
Objective: Examining oral health and oral hygiene as predictors of subsequent one-year survival in the institutionalized elderly. Design: It was hypothesized that oral health would be related to mortality in an institutionalized geriatric population. A 12-month prospective study of 292 elderly resid...
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Medicina Oral S.L.
2012
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3476025/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22322487 http://dx.doi.org/10.4317/medoral.17632 |
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author | Marín-Zuluaga, Dairo J. Sandvik, Leiv Gil-Montoya, José A. Willumsen, Tiril |
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description | Objective: Examining oral health and oral hygiene as predictors of subsequent one-year survival in the institutionalized elderly. Design: It was hypothesized that oral health would be related to mortality in an institutionalized geriatric population. A 12-month prospective study of 292 elderly residing in nine geriatric institutions in Granada, Spain, was thus carried out to evaluate the association between oral health and mortality. Independent samples, T-test, chi-square test and Cox regression analysis were used to analyze the data. Sixty-three participants died during the 12-month follow-up. Results: Mortality was increased in denture users (RR = 2.18, p= 0.007) and in people suffering severe cognitive impairment (RR = 2. 24, p= 0.003). One-year mortality was 50% in participants having both these characteristics. Conclusions: Oral hygiene was not significantly associated with mortality. Cognitive impairment and wearing dentures increased the risk of death. One-year mortality was 50% in cognitively impaired residents wearing dentures as opposed to 10% in patients without dentures and cognitive impairment. Key words:Oral health, mortality risk, institutionalised elderly. |
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spelling | pubmed-34760252012-10-19 Oral health and mortality risk in the institutionalised elderly Marín-Zuluaga, Dairo J. Sandvik, Leiv Gil-Montoya, José A. Willumsen, Tiril Med Oral Patol Oral Cir Bucal Research-Article Objective: Examining oral health and oral hygiene as predictors of subsequent one-year survival in the institutionalized elderly. Design: It was hypothesized that oral health would be related to mortality in an institutionalized geriatric population. A 12-month prospective study of 292 elderly residing in nine geriatric institutions in Granada, Spain, was thus carried out to evaluate the association between oral health and mortality. Independent samples, T-test, chi-square test and Cox regression analysis were used to analyze the data. Sixty-three participants died during the 12-month follow-up. Results: Mortality was increased in denture users (RR = 2.18, p= 0.007) and in people suffering severe cognitive impairment (RR = 2. 24, p= 0.003). One-year mortality was 50% in participants having both these characteristics. Conclusions: Oral hygiene was not significantly associated with mortality. Cognitive impairment and wearing dentures increased the risk of death. One-year mortality was 50% in cognitively impaired residents wearing dentures as opposed to 10% in patients without dentures and cognitive impairment. Key words:Oral health, mortality risk, institutionalised elderly. Medicina Oral S.L. 2012-07 2012-02-09 /pmc/articles/PMC3476025/ /pubmed/22322487 http://dx.doi.org/10.4317/medoral.17632 Text en Copyright: © 2012 Medicina Oral S.L. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research-Article Marín-Zuluaga, Dairo J. Sandvik, Leiv Gil-Montoya, José A. Willumsen, Tiril Oral health and mortality risk in the institutionalised elderly |
title | Oral health and mortality risk in the institutionalised elderly |
title_full | Oral health and mortality risk in the institutionalised elderly |
title_fullStr | Oral health and mortality risk in the institutionalised elderly |
title_full_unstemmed | Oral health and mortality risk in the institutionalised elderly |
title_short | Oral health and mortality risk in the institutionalised elderly |
title_sort | oral health and mortality risk in the institutionalised elderly |
topic | Research-Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3476025/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22322487 http://dx.doi.org/10.4317/medoral.17632 |
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