Abstract | BACKGROUND: METHODS: The Leisure World Cohort, established in 1981, comprises 13,979 residents (8877 women) of a retirement community. Of the 5935 cohort women alive in 1992, 3921 returned a dental survey with sufficient information to analyze relationships with ERT as reported on the original baseline questionnaire. RESULTS: After adjusting for age, tooth loss and rates of edentia were significantly lower in estrogen users than in nonusers (relative risk for edentia, 0.64; 95% confidence interval, 0.51 to 0.79). The proportion of women with edentia decreased with increasing duration of ERT. Denture wearing was also less common in estrogen users than in nonusers (relative risk, 0.81; 95% confidence interval, 0.71 to 0.93) and decreased with increasing duration of ERT. CONCLUSION:
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Authors | A Paganini-Hill |
Journal | Archives of internal medicine
(Arch Intern Med)
Vol. 155
Issue 21
Pg. 2325-9
(Nov 27 1995)
ISSN: 0003-9926 [Print] United States |
PMID | 7487257
(Publication Type: Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.)
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Topics |
- Aged
- Aged, 80 and over
- Alveolar Bone Loss
(etiology, prevention & control)
- Cohort Studies
- Confidence Intervals
- Dental Health Surveys
- Dentures
- Estrogen Replacement Therapy
- Female
- Humans
- Middle Aged
- Oral Health
- Risk
- Surveys and Questionnaires
- Tooth Loss
(etiology, prevention & control)
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