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Common risk factors and edentulism in adults, aged 50 years and over, in China, Ghana, India and South Africa: results from the WHO Study on global AGEing and adult health (SAGE)

BACKGROUND: Edentulism (loss of all teeth) is a final marker of disease burden for oral health common among older adults and poorer populations. Yet most evidence is from high-income countries. Oral health has many of the same social and behavioural risk factors as other non-communicable diseases (N...

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Autores principales: Kailembo, Alexander, Preet, Raman, Stewart Williams, Jennifer
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4964081/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27465011
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12903-016-0256-2