Higher Prevalence of Tooth Loss in People With Abdominal Obesity but Normal Weight: Findings From the United States and Scottish Populations
Jing Kang, Harriet Larvin, Sue Pavitt, Jianhua Wu · 2024
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Jing Kang and co-authors study tooth loss in people who carry excess fat around the waist but are not obese overall, in work published in 2024. Obesity is known to raise tooth loss risk. Whether belly fat alone, at normal weight, carries the same risk was unclear.
The team used two large health surveys, one from the United States and one from Scotland, together covering over twenty thousand adults. Tooth loss was graded by remaining teeth, and waist size was split into three bands. Among non-obese people, a larger waist linked to higher odds of tooth loss in both countries. The effect was stronger in women than in men in both surveys. The authors argue waist size deserves attention in dental risk checks.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Jing Kang, Harriet Larvin, Sue Pavitt, Jianhua Wu |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 34 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |