Tooth loss and cardiovascular disease mortality risk - results from the Scottish Health Survey

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Watt, Richard G ^a   Tsakos, Georgios ^a   de Oliveira, Cesar ^a   Hamer, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DENTURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PERIODONTAL DISEASE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SELF REPORT; SOCIOECONOMICS; STROKE; UNITED KINGDOM; MIDDLE AGED; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS; SURVIVAL;

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK FACTORS; SCOTLAND; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TOOTH LOSS;

EID: 84857406602     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0030797     Document Type: Article

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