Coronary heart disease patients with no teeth have nearly double risk of death

Tuesday, Oct. 31st 2023 6:23 AM

Coronary heart disease patients with no teeth have nearly double the risk of death as those with all of their teeth, according to research published today in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology.1 The study in more than 15 000 patients from 39 countries found that levels of tooth loss were linearly associated with increasing death rates.

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