TY - JOUR
T1 - Post-menopausal hormone use and tooth loss
T2 - A prospective study
AU - Grodstein, Francine
AU - Colditz, Graham A.
AU - Stampfer, Meir J.
N1 - Funding Information:
The research in this article was presented as an abstract at the meeting of the Society for Epidemiologic Research, Keystone, Colo., June 1994. This study was supported by Research National Institutes of Health. Dr. Grodstein is supported in part by a National Institutes of Health National Research Service Award, 5T32CA09001. The authors also received sup- port from a grant by Wyeth-Ayerst Laboratories.
PY - 1996/3
Y1 - 1996/3
N2 - Nearly 32 percent of U.S. women aged 65 to 69 years have no teeth. Because some tooth loss may reflect systemic osteoporosis, and because estrogen therapy seems to protect against osteoporosis, the authors examined the risk of tooth loss in relation to hormone use in a prospective study of 42,171 post-menopausal women. The risk of tooth loss was lower in women who currently used hormones. Although few studies have examined this issue, this research suggests that estrogen may reduce tooth loss.
AB - Nearly 32 percent of U.S. women aged 65 to 69 years have no teeth. Because some tooth loss may reflect systemic osteoporosis, and because estrogen therapy seems to protect against osteoporosis, the authors examined the risk of tooth loss in relation to hormone use in a prospective study of 42,171 post-menopausal women. The risk of tooth loss was lower in women who currently used hormones. Although few studies have examined this issue, this research suggests that estrogen may reduce tooth loss.
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U2 - 10.14219/jada.archive.1996.0208
DO - 10.14219/jada.archive.1996.0208
M3 - Article
C2 - 8819784
AN - SCOPUS:0030093957
SN - 0002-8177
VL - 127
SP - 370
EP - 377
JO - Journal of the American Dental Association
JF - Journal of the American Dental Association
IS - 3
ER -