Salivary albumin and other constituents and their relation to oral and general health in the elderly

Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine, Oral Pathology, Oral Radiology, and Endodontics

Volumn 94, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 432-438

  Meurman, Jukka H ^a,b   Rantonen, Panu ^a,b   Pajukoski, Hanna ^c   Sulkava, Raimo ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^c Helsinki City Health Department   (Finland)

^d KUOPIO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBUMINOID; ANALGESIC AGENT; SALIVA PROTEIN;

AGED; ARTICLE; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FRAIL ELDERLY; HEALTH; HEALTH STATUS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; MOUTH DISEASE; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; OUTPATIENT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK; SALIVA; SECRETION; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; SURVIVAL RATE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALBUMINS; ANALGESICS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FRAIL ELDERLY; HEALTH STATUS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MOUTH DISEASES; ODDS RATIO; ORAL HEALTH; OUTPATIENTS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SALIVA; SALIVARY PROTEINS; SECRETORY RATE; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; STATISTICS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0036777082     PISSN: 10792104     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/moe.2002.122345     Document Type: Article

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