Nutritional Status (Mid Upper Arm Circumference (MUAC)) In Relation To Missing Teeth Among Older Adults Aged (50-65) Years Old.
Journal Title: IOSR Journal of Dental and Medical Sciences (IOSR-JDMS) - Year 2018, Vol 17, Issue 1
Abstract
Background: With aging both tooth loss and nutritional disturbance will occur and could be related with each other. This study was achieved to evaluate the relation between tooth loss and posterior occluding pairs (POPs) and nutritional status (Mid Upper Arm Circumference (MUAC)) among older adults. Subjects and Methods: 323 subjects aged 50-65 years old with a mean ± SD is 57.26±3.83 distributed into two age groups (50-57) and (58-65) years old with 150 and 173 subjects for these two age groups respectively, with 133 and 190 for males and females respectively and they had been collected from prosthodontic department in college of Dentistry/University of Baghdad and private dental clinic and were examined for their MUAC and intra-oral examination according to World Health Organization (WHO, 2006) and (WHO , 1997) respectively, natural teeth present in oral cavity and POPs was categorized according to criteria of (De Anderade et al., 2009) and (Finch et al., 2001) respectively. Results: the mean of the MUAC among the sample is 33.91±3.33, in the total sample and by age and gender, the MUAC among natural teeth and POPs categories is highly significant (p<0.01) revealed that both edentulous and the subjects with no POPs had the lowest mean of MUAC while the dentate subjects (11-20) and those with 5-8 POPs had the highest mean of MUAC, when using multiple comparisons in teeth categories in males only, between 1-10 and 11-20, and in POPs categories, in the first age group(50-57) and in males , when compare 1- 4 category with 5-8, the results were not significant (p>0.05), while the other results were highly significant. Conclusion: Results show that dental health is related with nutritional status of those subjects and conclude that the dentitional status should be considered when using both counseling and evaluation of nutritional status of older adults.
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Mohammed Ghalib Rzoqi
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