Oral Health, Inflammation, and the Burden of Multiple Long-Term Conditions: Cross-Sectional Analyses from UK Biobank and NHANES
Nisachon Siripaiboonpong, Jeanie Suvan, Praveen Sharma, Attawood Lertpimonchai, Crystal Marruganti, Francesco D’Aiuto · 2026
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Nisachon Siripaiboonpong and co-authors link gum disease with carrying many long-term conditions in a 2026 analysis of two giant cohorts. UK Biobank supplied half a million people, and a United States nutrition survey added ten thousand more with clinical gum examinations. Multimorbidity meant living with at least two chronic diseases.
About half of participants in both cohorts carried multiple conditions. Gum disease raised the odds of multimorbidity modestly in the United Kingdom data and more clearly in the American data. Links strengthened in adults under sixty and grew in a dose pattern with gum severity. Blood inflammation markers explained part of the association in mediation tests. Public health readers gain population-scale support for mouth-body integration. Dental care belongs in chronic disease prevention talks, especially for younger adults.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Nisachon Siripaiboonpong, Jeanie Suvan, Praveen Sharma, Attawood Lertpimonchai, Crystal Marruganti, Francesco D’Aiuto |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 36 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |