reviewJournal Of Clinical PeriodontologyFeb 3, 2020BRONZE OA

Periodontitis and cardiovascular diseases: Consensus report

Universidad Complutense de Madrid · Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal · +28 more institutions

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Abstract

BACKGROUND: In Europe cardiovascular disease (CVD) is responsible for 3.9 million deaths (45% of deaths), being ischaemic heart disease, stroke, hypertension (leading to heart failure) the major cause of these CVD related deaths. Periodontitis is also a chronic non-communicable disease (NCD) with a high prevalence, being severe periodontitis, affecting 11.2% of the world's population, the sixth most common human disease. MATERIAL AND METHODS: There is now a significant body of evidence to support independent associations between severe periodontitis and several NCDs, in particular CVD. In 2012 a joint workshop was held between the European Federation of Periodontology (EFP) and the American Academy of…

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