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Dental infections in association with cerebral infarction in young and middle‐aged men
Author(s) -
SYRJÄNEN J.,
PELTOLA J.,
VALTONEN V.,
IIVANAINEN M.,
KASTE M.,
HUTTUNEN J. K.
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
journal of internal medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.625
H-Index - 160
eISSN - 1365-2796
pISSN - 0954-6820
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2796.1989.tb00060.x
Subject(s) - medicine , cerebral infarction , periodontium , stroke (engine) , periodontal disease , infarction , case control study , dentistry , oral and maxillofacial pathology , myocardial infarction , ischemia , mechanical engineering , engineering
. The association between dental infections and cerebral infarction was investigated in a case‐control study involving 40 patients with ischaemic cerebral infarction under the age of 50, and 40 randomly selected community controls matched for sex and age. Poor oral health, as assessed by two indices measuring the severity of infections of teeth and periodontium, or by the presence of subgingival calculus or the presence of suppuration in the gingival pockets, were more common in male patients than in male controls, but no difference was observed in females. If severe dental infections were combined with other probable bacterial infections there were altogether 16 patients (40%) but only two controls (5%) who had suffered from a probable bacterial infection within 1 month or at the time of the stroke or when examined as a control ( P < 0.01). Our results suggest an association between bacterial infection and ischaemic cerebrovascular disease in patients under 50 years of age. Severe chronic dental infection seems to be an important type of infection associated with cerebral infarction in males.