The Association of Gum Bleeding with Respiratory Health in a Population Based Study from Northern Europe.

There is little knowledge about how oral and respiratory health is interrelated even though the mucosa of the oral cavity and airways constitutes a continuum and the exposures to these are partly similar.To investigate whether gum bleeding is related to asthma, respiratory symptoms and self-reported...

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Main Authors: Francisco Gómez Real, Laura Pérez Barrionuevo, Karl Franklin, Eva Lindberg, Randi Jacobsen Bertelsen, Bryndís Benediktsdóttir, Bertil Forsberg, Thorarinn Gislason, Rain Jögi, Ane Johannessen, Ernst Omenaas, Eirunn Saure, Vivi Schlünssen, Trude Duelien Skorge, Kjell Torén, Antonio Pérez Saavedra, Øistein Svanes, Anne Nordrehaug Åstrøm, Christer Janson, Cecilie Svanes
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4725728?pdf=render