Design and Progress of Oral Health Examinations in the Tohoku Medical Megabank Project.

Design and Progress of Oral Health Examinations in the Tohoku Medical Megabank Project. Tohoku J Exp Med. 2020;251(2):97-115 Authors: Tsuboi A, Matsui H, Shiraishi N, Murakami T, Otsuki A, Kawashima J, Kiyama T, Tamahara T, Goto M, Koyama S, Sugawara J, Kodama EN, Metoki H, Hozawa A, Kuriyama S, Tomita H, Kikuya M, Minegishi N, Suzuki K, Koshiba S, Tamiya G, Fuse N, Aoki Y, Takai-Igarashi T, Ogishima S, Nakamura T, Sakurai-Yageta M, Nagami F, Kinoshita K, Kure S, Shimizu R, Sasaki K, Yamamoto M Abstract In order to assess the long-term impact of the Great East Japan Earthquake on the oral health of disaster victims and to evaluate gene-environmental interactions in the development of major oral diseases and oral-systemic associations, the oral part of two large-scale genome cohort studies by the Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization (ToMMo), including the Community-based cohort (CommCohort) study and the Birth and Three-Generation cohort (BirThree) study, have been conducted. The study population comprised 32,185 subjects, including 16,886 participants in the CommCohort study and 15,299 participants in the BirThree cohort study, recruited from 2013 to 2017. The oral studies consist of a questionnaire regarding oral hygiene behavior, clinical examinations by dentists, and oral plaque and saliva sampling for microbiome analyses, which were carried out at seven community support centers in Miyagi prefecture. The median age of all partici...
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