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ArticleJournal of obstetrics and gynaecology of India2015

Association of Periodontal Disease and Pre-term Low Birth Weight Infants.

Manjusha Varadan, Jaiganesh Ramamurthy

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Article in Journal of obstetrics and gynaecology of India, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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3 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Sex Steroid Hormones as a Balancing Factor in Oral Host Microbiome Interactions.Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2021
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Manjusha VaradanSaveetha Dental College, Chennai, Tamilnadu India ; AP 14/1095, Thendral colony, Second Street, Anna nagar West, Chennai, 40 India.
Jaiganesh RamamurthySaveetha Dental College, Chennai, Tamilnadu India.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The incidence of pre-term low birth weight still prevails in developed as well as developing countries though the numbers may vary. Periodontitis is a chronic inflammatory process with multifactorial etiology and adversely affects the outcome of pregnancy which becomes a major public health problem. The association of periodontitis as risk factor for pre-term birth has been in extensive research in the past two decades when a number of studies investigated this relationship. However, definite connection has not been proved yet and research is still ongoing. This article describes about the possible relationship that can exist between pre-term low birth weight infants and periodontal disease.

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Maternal periodontitisPregnancyPre-term low birth weight

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PMID26085737
PMCPMC4464563

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