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- Title
Preeclampsia - An Oral Infectious Etiology?
- Authors
Mahendra, Jaideep; Desai, Khushbu; Mahendra, Little
- Abstract
Preeclampsia is a common hypertensive disorder of pregnancy, affecting 5-10% of pregnancies and contributing significantly to natural and periodontal morbidity and mortality. It has been recently studied that women were at higher risk for preeclampsia, if they had severe periodontal disease at delivery. Periodontal disease may provide a chronic burden of endotoxin and inflammatory cytokines, which serve to initiate and exacerbate atherogenesis and thrombogenesis. It is possible that the placenta may be similarly burdened in pregnant women who develop preeclampsia. Preeclampsia and periodontitis are both mutlifactorial diseases and obtaining a good oral hygiene measures can reduce the risk for periodontal disease there by also reducing the further risk for preeclampsia in the pregnant women.
- Subjects
PREECLAMPSIA; MOUTH infections; ETIOLOGY of diseases; PEUTZ-Jeghers syndrome; PIGMENTATION disorders; CYTOKINES; ENDOTOXINS
- Publication
Indian Journal of Dental Sciences, 2011, Vol 3, Issue 3, p37
- ISSN
0976-4003
- Publication type
Article