Stroke-related parameters affecting the deterioration of oral health-related quality of life as measured by OHIP-14 three months after ischemic stroke
Joanna Slowik, Pawel Wrona, Tomasz Homa, Bartosz Kolodziejczyk, Maciej Dzierzak, Malgorzata Dec-Cwiek, Marcin Wnuk · 2025
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Joanna Slowik and six co-authors ask what makes stroke survivors' mouths, and their quality of life around them, worsen in the first three months. They followed 392 patients from a Polish stroke project who filled in a fourteen-item oral health questionnaire during the acute hospital phase and again three months after their ischemic stroke. Thirty-seven candidate factors, from scans and blood tests to mood, were tested against who deteriorated.
Nearly half the patients, 189 of 392, worsened. The strongest signals were mental rather than dental: persistent anxiety roughly tripled the odds of decline, and worsening anxiety or depression after the stroke carried similar weight. A higher platelet count also nudged risk up slightly. The authors argue that protecting oral health-related quality of life after stroke means watching mood at least as closely as teeth, since anxiety and depression track the decline so strongly.
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| CREATOR | Joanna Slowik, Pawel Wrona, Tomasz Homa, Bartosz Kolodziejczyk, Maciej Dzierzak, Malgorzata Dec-Cwiek, Marcin Wnuk |
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| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 51 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |