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Waist circumference and waist-to-height ratio are associated with periodontal pocketing—results of the Health 2000 Survey

BACKGROUND: Body mass index (BMI) has been found to associate with different parameters of chronic periodontal disease in previous studies. It is reasonable to expect that central adiposity measures, such as waist circumference and waist-to-height ratio, which indirectly takes into account visceral...

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Autores principales: Kangas, Sanna, Timonen, Petra, Knuuttila, Matti, Jula, Antti, Ylöstalo, Pekka, Syrjälä, Anna-Maija Hannele
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5244610/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28100211
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12903-017-0336-y