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SUBMITTER: Sanz M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7027895 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Sanz Mariano M Marco Del Castillo Alvaro A Jepsen Søren S Gonzalez-Juanatey Jose R JR D'Aiuto Francesco F Bouchard Philippe P Chapple Iain I Dietrich Thomas T Gotsman Israel I Graziani Filippo F Herrera David D Loos Bruno B Madianos Phoebus P Michel Jean-Baptiste JB Perel Pablo P Pieske Burkert B Shapira Lior L Shechter Michael M Tonetti Maurizio M Vlachopoulos Charalambos C Wimmer Gernot G
Journal of clinical periodontology 20200203 3
<h4>Background</h4>In Europe cardiovascular disease (CVD) is responsible for 3.9 million deaths (45% of deaths), being ischaemic heart disease, stroke, hypertension (leading to heart failure) the major cause of these CVD related deaths. Periodontitis is also a chronic non-communicable disease (NCD) with a high prevalence, being severe periodontitis, affecting 11.2% of the world's population, the sixth most common human disease.<h4>Material and methods</h4>There is now a significant body of evide ...[more]