ArticleJournal of the American Geriatrics Society2025
Tooth Loss and 12-Year Mortality Risk in 8494 Older Adults From Ireland.
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- Oral health, dietary variety, homebound status, and intrinsic capacity among community-dwelling older adults.The journal of nutrition, health & aging · 2026Article
- Tooth Loss and 12-Year Mortality Risk in 8494 Older Adults From Ireland.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2025Article
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objectivesTo investigate whether tooth loss is associated with all-cause and cause-specific mortality in older Irish adults.
methodsA total of 8494 participants from The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA) were included. Survey data were linked to death registration records, covering individuals who participated in TILDA Wave 1 (2009/2010) and died by 31st January 2022. Cox proportional hazards regressions and competing risk survival analyses were employed to examine the longitudinal relationship between tooth loss and both all-cause and cause-specific mortality.
resultsThe mean age of participants at baseline was 63.2 years (SD 10.2). Among the cohort, 3951 (46.5%) were categorized as "Dentate, no denture," 3041 (35.8%) as "Dentate, with denture(s)," and 1502 (17.7%) as "Edentulous." Over a median follow-up of 12 years, 1430 (16.8%) participants died. After adjusting for confounders, edentulous participants had a significantly higher hazard ratio (HR) for all-cause mortality compared to dentate participants with no dentures (HR = 1.42, 95% CI 1.23-1.65, p < 0.001). For cause-specific mortality, edentulism had the greatest sub-distribution hazard ratio (SHR) with respiratory mortality (SHR = 1.57, 95% CI 1.03-2.41, p = 0.04), followed by cancer mortality (SHR = 1.31, 95% CI 1.01-1.71, p = 0.04). There was a nonsignificant association with cardiovascular mortality (SHR = 1.25, 95% CI 0.96-1.63, p = 0.10).
conclusionsEdentulism was independently associated with all-cause mortality in a cohort of 8494 men and women from Ireland. Edentulism was significantly associated with respiratory and cancer mortality.
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