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- Title
Periodontal Disease among Adult, New-Immigrant, Chinese Americans in Boston with and without Diabetes - A Brief Communication.
- Authors
Leong, Peggy; Tumanyan, Sona; Blicher, Brooke; Yeung, Albert; Joshipura, Kaumudi
- Abstract
We compared the periodontal disease levels in a population of low socioeconomic status (SES), urban, adult, Chinese American immigrants with and without type 2 diabetes. Dental records of 51 diabetic adults were compared with 102 nondiabetic controls from South Cove Community Health Center, Boston, MA, cross-matched by age and gender. Our results showed that the proportion of sites with bone loss greater than 5 mm in the mesial areas of teeth was significantly correlated with higher glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA1c) ( r = 0.35, P-value = 0.01). The number of teeth with mesial bone loss of greater than 5 mm was correlated to increasing HbA1c ( r = 0.37, P-value = 0.01). Our preliminary data showed that mesial bone loss greater than 5 mm was correlated with inadequate control of diabetes. The implications and recommendations for the dental care of immigrant Chinese Americans with diabetes were discussed.
- Subjects
PERIODONTAL disease; CHINESE Americans; SOCIAL status; GLYCOSYLATED hemoglobin; PEOPLE with diabetes; DENTAL care
- Publication
Journal of Public Health Dentistry, 2007, Vol 67, Issue 3, p171
- ISSN
0022-4006
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1752-7325.2007.00042.x