TY - JOUR
A1 - Pant, Bhawana
A1 - Goit, Rajesh
A1 - Bhargava, Pushpa
A1 - Neupane, Ganesh
T1 - To determine the correlation between anthropometric variable of obesity and periodontitis among Mid-Western population of Nepal
Y1 - 2017/7/1
JF - Indian Journal of Multidisciplinary Dentistry
JO - Indian J Multidiscip Dent
SP - 106
EP - 109
VL - 7
IS - 2
UR - https://www.ijmdent.com/article.asp?issn=2229-6360;year=2017;volume=7;issue=2;spage=106;epage=109;aulast=Pant
DO - 10.4103/ijmd.ijmd_38_17
N2 -
Purpose: Periodontitis qualifies as a major public health problem owing to its high prevalence and incidence in all regions of the world. Among many predisposing factors of periodontitis such as age, hygiene, gender, socioeconomic status, and tobacco consumption, obesity also has significant impact. Although a lot of progress has been achieved in past decade on accessibility and awareness about oral health, the obesity still remains impending and burgeoning health concern in Nepal. With this trend, we can foresee that the body mass index (BMI), one of the commonly used indirect measure of obesity, might potentially turn out to be one of the leading factors of periodontitis.
Materials and Methodology: We screened 300 healthy controls and divided into two groups – Group I (BMI >30) and Group II (BMI <30) to study the correlation between BMI and periodontal status.
Results: Our result showed that periodontitis is significantly correlated with BMI (P = 0.023) in Group I whereas no such correlation was seen in Group II (P = 0.22). The prevalence of periodontal disease was more in Group I (43.1%) as compared to Group II (5.3%) persons (Odds ratio = 11.826 and 95% confidence interval 5.415–21.828).
Conclusion: Our data suggest that the BMI can be a good predictor of periodontitis.
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