Open AccessA survey on the effects of metabolic syndrome on the periodontal indices of hemodialysis patients
Author(s) -
Mahdi Tavakoli,
Mahdi Izadi,
Jaber Yaghini,
Abdolah Rastegari,
Ahmad Moghareh Abed
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
dental research journal.
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.334
H-Index - 17
eISSN - 2008-0255
pISSN - 1735-3327
DOI - 10.4103/1735-3327.187873
Subject(s) - medicine , mann–whitney u test , metabolic syndrome , analysis of variance , periodontitis , periodontal disease , hemodialysis , kruskal–wallis one way analysis of variance , one way analysis of variance , chronic periodontitis , dentistry , gastroenterology , obesity
The metabolic syndrome and periodontitis coincide with systemic inflammation and glucose tolerance disorder, which indicate the common pathophysiologic pathway of these diseases. The main goal of this study was to determine the effects of the metabolic syndrome on the periodontal indices of hemodialysis (HD) patient.