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Lesions of Endodontic Origin and Risk of Coronary Heart Disease

¹ Departments of Dental Ecology,
² Periodontology, School of Dentistry, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA;
³ Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA;
⁴ Private Practice of Endodontics, Meriden, CT, USA; and
⁵ VA Boston Healthcare System and Boston University Goldman School of Dental Medicine, Boston, MA, USA

View larger version (9K): [in a new window]   Figure. Effect of lesion-years on time to first CHD diagnosis, adjusted for demographic, medical, and dental covariates. Adjustment for baseline values of education, income, total cholesterol, triglycerides, diabetes, hypertension, smoking, BMI, mean alveolar bone loss, number of teeth, number of teeth with LEO, and number of endodontically treated teeth. Solid line = hazard ratio estimate; dotted lines = upper and lower 95% confidence intervals.