Improved oral hygiene care and chronic kidney disease occurrence: A nationwide population-based retrospective cohort study.

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Abstract

Oral diseases or poor oral hygiene have close connections with systemic inflammatory reaction, which is one of major mechanism in the development of chronic kidney disease (CKD). We conducted a research assuming that better oral hygiene care would be negatively related with the risk of developing new-onset CKD.From 2003 to 2004, a total of 158,495 participants from the Korean national health insurance data sharing service which provides health screening data including variables as age, sex, vascular risk factors, medication information, indicators regarding oral hygiene, and laboratory results. The diagnosis of CKD and vascular risk factors were defined according to the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems codes-10th revision. Th

SUBMITTER: Chang Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8615368 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature