Periodontitis and blood pressure: The concept of dental hypertension

Atherosclerosis

Volumn 219, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-9

  Tsioufis, Costas ^a   Kasiakogias, Alexandros ^a   Thomopoulos, Costas ^a   Stefanadis, Christodoulos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Blood pressure; Hypertension; Inflammation; Periodontitis

Indexed keywords

ARTERIAL STIFFNESS; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENDOTHELIAL DYSFUNCTION; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; HYPERTENSION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFLAMMATION; INSULIN RESISTANCE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERIODONTITIS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; TARGET ORGAN;

ANIMALS; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BLOOD PRESSURE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; HYPERTROPHY, LEFT VENTRICULAR; INFLAMMATION; INFLAMMATION MEDIATORS; INSULIN RESISTANCE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PERIODONTITIS; PERIODONTIUM; RISK FACTORS; VASCULAR STIFFNESS;

EID: 80054973105     PISSN: 00219150     EISSN: 18791484     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2011.04.030     Document Type: Review

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