Influence of Chronic Periodontitis on the Long-Term Mortality and Cardiovascular Events in Kidney Transplant Recipients.

The Cox regression with Firth’s penalized maximum likelihood analysis revealed that only MACE (χ 2 = 23.6; HR 9.49 (3.63–30.72); p < 0.001) was independently associated with increased risk of CVD death, whereas the effect of age did not reach statistical significance (χ 2 = 3.8; HR 1.02 (1.00–1.09); p = 0.05) ( Figure 3 ). 3.3.

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