Periodontal treatment and peripheral arterial disease severity - a retrospective analysis of health insurance claims data.
Conclusions: In this large-scale retrospective analysis of health insurance claims data comprising hospitalized symptomatic PAD patients, treatment of PD was associated with PAD disease severity independent of age, gender and diabetes. A potential benefit of periodontal treatment in relation to PAD will have to be determined in further prospective studies.
PMID: 31983289 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: VASA. Zeitschrift fur Gefasskrankheiten. Journal for Vascular Diseases - Category: Surgery Authors: Aarabi G, Raedel M, Kreutzburg T, Hischke S, Debus ES, Marschall U, Seedorf U, Behrendt CA Tags: Vasa Source Type: research
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