Cardiovascular risk assessment in periodontitis patients and controls using the European Systematic COronary Risk Evaluation (SCORE) model. A pilot study.

Front Physiol · 2022 · PMC9923497 · PMID 36794206

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Confirmatory to previous studies, we also observed that biochemical risk markers for CVD, such as elevated total cholesterol, LDL-cholesterol and triglycerides, showed an increasing trend in localized and generalized periodontitis patients compared to controls ( Losche et al., 2000 ; Nibali et al., 2007 ; Monteiro et al., 2009 ; Schenkein and Loos, 2013 ).

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