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Masticatory Performance and Mortality in Individuals with Cardiovascular Diseases: A Population-Based Prospective Study

2026-01-04 cardiovascular medicine Title + abstract only
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BackgroundThe relationship between functional tooth units (FTU) and cardiovascular diseases (CVD) risk remains understudied. This study is to investigate the association between masticatory performance, measured by FTU, and CVD incidence and CVH, and mortality among individuals with CVD using data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES). MethodsMasticatory function was measured by FTU, CVD was determined by the self-reported questionnaire, CVH was assessed using the A...

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