Evidence map›Paper›PMID 27015191›Full record

Observational studyMedicine2016

Oxidative Stress and Periodontal Disease in Obesity.

Erhan Dursun, Ferda Alev Akalin, Tolga Genc, Nese Cinar, Ozcan Erel, Bulent Okan Yildiz

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Observational study in Medicine, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 39 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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39citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
6.7field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

39 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 75 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
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  3. Association between Pediatric Obesity and Periodontal Health: A Systematic Review.International journal of clinical pediatric dentistry · 2026
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  12. The impact of dental metal restorations on the oral oxidative stress level.Journal of clinical and experimental dentistry · 2023
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  18. Saliva pH and Flow Rate in Patients with Periodontal Disease and Associated Cardiovascular Disease.Medical science monitor : international medical journal of experimental and clinical research · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 3 institutions in 4 countries.

Erhan DursunFrom the Department of Periodontology (ED, FAA, TG), Faculty of Dentistry; Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism (NC, BOY), Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Hacettepe University; and Department of Biochemistry (OE), Faculty of Medicine, Yıldırım Beyazıt University, Ankara, Turkey.
Ferda Alev Akalin
Tolga Genc
Nese Cinar
Ozcan Erel
Bulent Okan Yildiz
Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado · BRUniversity of Dental Medicine · MMBridge University · SS

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Periodontal disease is a chronic inflammatory disease of the jaws and is more prevalent in obesity. Local and systemic oxidative stress may be an early link between periodontal disease and obesity. The primary aim of this study was to detect whether increased periodontal disease susceptibility in obese individuals is associated with local and systemic oxidative stress. Accordingly; we analyzed periodontal status and systemic (serum) and local (gingival crevicular fluid [GCF]) oxidative status markers in young obese women in comparison with age-matched lean women.Twenty obese and 20 lean women participated. Periodontal condition was determined by clinical periodontal indices including probing depth, clinical attachment level, gingival index, gingival bleeding index, and plaque index. Anthropometric, hormonal, and metabolic measurements were also performed. Blood and GCF sampling was performed at the same time after an overnight fasting. Serum and GCF total antioxidant capacity (TAOC), and total oxidant status (TOS) levels were determined, and oxidative stress index (OSI) was calculated.Clinical periodontal analyses showed higher gingival index and gingival bleeding index in the obese group (P = 0.001 for both) with no significant difference in probing depth, clinical attachment level, and plaque index between the obese and the lean women. Oxidant status analyses revealed lower GCF and serum TAOC, and higher GCF and serum OSI values in the obese women (P < 0.05 for all). GCF TOS was higher in the obese women (P < 0.05), whereas there was a nonsignificant trend for higher serum TOS in obese women (P = 0.074). GCF TAOC values showed a negative correlation with body mass index, whereas GCF OSI was positively correlated with fasting insulin and low-density lipoprotein-cholesterol levels (P < 0.05 for all). Clinical periodontal indices showed significant correlations with body mass index, insulin, and lipid levels, and also oxidant status markers.Our results suggest that young obese, otherwise healthy, women show findings of early periodontal disease (gingival inflammation) compared with age-matched healthy lean women, and that local/periodontal oxidative stress generated by obesity seems to be associated with periodontal disease.

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AdultBody Mass IndexDisease SusceptibilityFemaleGingival Crevicular FluidHumansObesityOxidative StressPeriodontal DiseasesPeriodontal IndexPeriodontiumReference ValuesRisk FactorsStatistics as TopicThinness

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PMID27015191
PMCPMC4998386
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