PURPOSE Diabetes and periodontal disease are conditions considered to be biologically linked. Prediabetes is a condition in which individuals have blood glucose levels, impaired fasting glucose (IFG) and/or impaired glucose tolerance (IGT) or glycated hemoglobin (A1C) levels higher than normal but not high enough to be classified as diabetes. Few human studies address the relationship between p...

BACKGROUND "Aggressive periodontitis (AgP) is a destructive disease characterized by the following: The involvement of multiple teeth with a distinctive pattern of periodontal tissue loss; a high rate of disease progression; an early age of onset; and the absence of systemic diseases.'' Chronic low-level bacteremia and systemic inflammatory response have been suggested as a pathogenic link betw...

Background: Chronic renal failure patients undergoing hemodialysis are susceptible to periodontal diseases due to systemic complications of the disease and using different drugs. The present study investigated the periodontal status of patient’s who underwent hemodialysis, in Babol, northern Iran. Methods: One-hundred-fifteen hemodialysis patients (63 males, 52 females) with the mean age of 47...

Scenario: Dental surface biofilm formation triggers periodontal disease (gingivitis and periodontitis), the second most frequent oral pathology, only to caries. Studies of these diseases' prevalence in coffee consumers have shown conflicting results. Some studies correlate consumption with aggravation disease, while others remission. Purpose: This study aimed analyze association between using C...

BACKGROUND Recent researches have known long term infections such as periodontal disease to be related with the process of atherosclerosis. Periodontitis causes peripheral inflammation and immune cell stimulation which leads to an increase in C - reactive protein (CRP) and IgA Ab and there is a definite relation between cardiovascular disease, CRP increase and Periodontitis. The aim of this stu...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Dental and periodontal disease are potentially involved in the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis. We investigated whether dental and periodontal status is associated with the presence and future progression of carotid stenosis. METHODS We randomly selected 411 of 1268 participants from the prospective Inflammation and Carotid Artery Risk for Atherosclerosis Study and eval...

The use of esophageal recordings of the diaphragm electromyogram (EMG) signal strength to evaluate diaphragm activation during voluntary contractions in humans has recently been criticized because of a possible artifact created by changes in lung volume. Therefore, the first aim of this study was to evaluate whether there is an artifactual influence of lung volume on the strength of the diaphra...

AIM the aim of this study was to evaluate cognitive and motor development in children with major congenital anomalies and the predictability of development at age 5 years. METHOD a prospective, longitudinal follow-up study was undertaken. The Dutch version of the Bayley Scales of Infant Development - Mental Developmental Index (MDI) and Psychomotor Developmental Index (PDI) - were administere...

The article entitled “Summary of the evidence on modifiable risk factors for cognitive decline and dementia: A population-based perspective” was published recently by M Baumghart et al. in Alzheimer’s & Dementia on behalf of the Alzheimer’s Association. This article succinctly reviews the evidence for many putative modifiable risk factors of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and cognitive decline [1] an...

Bacterial endocarditis is the infection of inner lining of heart and /or heart valves. This disease is usually related to the presence of some pathogenic bacteria in mouth, digestive system or urinary tract. Most of the times, this infection happens in people with heart problems like the presence of prosthetic valves, history of previous endocarditis, some congenital heart defects and heart tra...