Evaluating Periodontal Treatment to Prevent Cardiovascular Disease: Challenges and Possible Solutions

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• 作者：Anwar T. Merchant ; Salim S. Virani
• 关键词：Periodontal treatment ; Periodontal disease ; Cardiovascular disease ; Causal inference
• 刊名：Current Atherosclerosis Reports
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：January 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：19
• 期：1
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• 刊物主题：Angiology; Cardiology;
• 出版者：Springer US
• ISSN：1534-6242
• 卷排序：19

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Purpose of ReviewPeriodontal disease is correlated with cardiovascular disease (CVD) in observational studies, but a causal connection has not been established. The empirical evidence linking periodontal disease and CVD consists of a large body of observational and mechanistic studies, but a limited number of clinical trials evaluating the effects of periodontal treatment on surrogate CVD endpoints.