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Social Isolation and Accelerated Tooth Loss Among Chinese Older Adults

Social isolation and loneliness in older adults are major global public health concerns. Tooth loss is also a common problem in this population. This study examined the effects of social isolation and loneliness on the number of remaining teeth and the rate of tooth loss among Chinese older adults....

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Autores principales: Qi, Xiang, Pei, Yaolin, Wang, Katherine, Han, Shuyu, Wu, Bei
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8679333/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igab046.112
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Wang, Katherine
Han, Shuyu
Wu, Bei
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description Social isolation and loneliness in older adults are major global public health concerns. Tooth loss is also a common problem in this population. This study examined the effects of social isolation and loneliness on the number of remaining teeth and the rate of tooth loss among Chinese older adults. We included 4,268 older adults age 65+ from three waves of the Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey (2011/2012, 2014, 2018). Linear mixed-effect models showed higher levels of social isolation were associated with fewer remaining teeth (β = -1.59, P < 0.05) and accelerated tooth loss (β=-0.10, P<0.05) controlled for socio-demographic, lifestyle, oral hygiene behavior, and health status. Loneliness was neither associated with the number of remaining teeth (β=0.64, P>0.05) nor with the rate of tooth loss (β=-0.09, P>0.05) before and after controlling for covariates. These findings expand our knowledge regarding the correlation between social connection and tooth loss in non-Western populations.
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spelling pubmed-86793332021-12-17 Social Isolation and Accelerated Tooth Loss Among Chinese Older Adults Qi, Xiang Pei, Yaolin Wang, Katherine Han, Shuyu Wu, Bei Innov Aging Abstracts Social isolation and loneliness in older adults are major global public health concerns. Tooth loss is also a common problem in this population. This study examined the effects of social isolation and loneliness on the number of remaining teeth and the rate of tooth loss among Chinese older adults. We included 4,268 older adults age 65+ from three waves of the Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey (2011/2012, 2014, 2018). Linear mixed-effect models showed higher levels of social isolation were associated with fewer remaining teeth (β = -1.59, P < 0.05) and accelerated tooth loss (β=-0.10, P<0.05) controlled for socio-demographic, lifestyle, oral hygiene behavior, and health status. Loneliness was neither associated with the number of remaining teeth (β=0.64, P>0.05) nor with the rate of tooth loss (β=-0.09, P>0.05) before and after controlling for covariates. These findings expand our knowledge regarding the correlation between social connection and tooth loss in non-Western populations. Oxford University Press 2021-12-17 /pmc/articles/PMC8679333/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igab046.112 Text en © The Author(s) 2021. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Gerontological Society of America. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) ), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_short Social Isolation and Accelerated Tooth Loss Among Chinese Older Adults
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8679333/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igab046.112
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