Tobacco Products, Periodontal Health and Education Level: Cohort Study from Sweden.

ABSTRACT: The aim of this study is to investigate if using tobacco products (including snuff, smoking tobacco and dual-using) associates with periodontal health, education level and mortality in a Swedish cohort, hypothesizing that tobacco products affect periodontal health, associate with lower education and increase the risk of death. Study cohort of 1080 subjects aged 31-40 years (528 men, 552 women) was clinically examined and interviewed in 1985 and followed for mortality until 2015. Subjects were classified into two groups: "tobacco users" and "non-users". Associations between periodontal health parameters, tobacco products, education level and age of death were analysed. SPSS was used for analyses. Tobacco products, as well as education level associated, with poor periodontal health. Tobacco

SUBMITTER: Julkunen-Iivari A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7559463 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature