标题：Association between the frequency of toothbrushing and lifestyle in people with type 2 diabetes mellitus: at the baseline date of the Kamogawa-DM cohort study
期刊名称：Journal of Clinical Biochemistry and Nutrition
印刷版ISSN：0912-0009
电子版ISSN：1880-5086
出版年度：2021
卷号：69
期号：3
页码：294-298
DOI：10.3164/jcbn.21-15
语种：English
出版社：The Society for Free Radical Research Japan
摘要：It has been reported that oral health is associated with some
co-morbid conditions, including cardiovascular disease, in people with type 2 diabetes mellitus. The present study investigated the association between the frequency of toothbrushing and lifestyle in people with type 2 diabetes mellitus. This cross-sectional study included 624 outpatients at the Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine in Kyoto, Japan from January 2014 to January 2016. Lifestyle was evaluated using a self-administered questionnaire. The average age and hemoglobin A1c level were 67.6 ± 10.9 years and 7.2 ± 1.1%, respectively. The number of patients who brushed their teeth twice or more a day was 189 (50.3%) in men and 198 (79.8%) in women. Among men, the proportion of patients living alone was lower in those who brushed their teeth twice or more a day than those who brushed their teeth never/rarely or once
a day. The logistic regression analysis, after adjusting for confounding factors, revealed that living alone (odds ratio 2.88; 95% confidence interval 1.53–5.66) was associated with the increased odds of the low frequency of toothbrushing (never/rarely or once a day) in men, but not in women. In conclusion,
the results of our study suggest that living alone was associated with the low frequency of toothbrushing in people with type 2 diabetes mellitus, particularly in men.
关键词：frequency of toothbrushing; living alone; type 2 diabetes
