Associations between caries levels and BMI measures among five-year-old children. Analysis and cross-sectional multi-variable analysis at individual child level.

CONCLUSIONS: There is some association between child BMI status and caries levels whereby caries prevalence among children of higher BMI is increased. The associations are over and above those of deprivation, ethnicity and water fluoridation individually, but these factors impact on the strength of the link between BMI and caries. PMID: 32338837 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Community Dental Health - Category: Dentistry Tags: Community Dent Health Source Type: research