Prevalence of Medical Comorbidities in Dental Patients.

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dc.contributor.authorWalia, Inderdeep Singh
dc.contributor.authorBhatia, Lovleen
dc.contributor.authorSingh, Amritpal
dc.contributor.authorKaur, Kamaldeep
dc.contributor.authorDuggal, Aditya
dc.contributor.authorAjaypal
dc.date.accessioned2017-01-19T05:08:33Z
dc.date.available2017-01-19T05:08:33Z
dc.date.issued2017-01
dc.description.abstractBackground: Over the last few decades, oral health care has become a greater priority as people live longer with serious medical conditions and disabilities and the dentist must be aware of them to provide safe and effective oral care. Objective: To study the prevalence of medical comorbidities in patients seeking dental treatments. Design: A crosssectional observational study. Methods: The study was conducted at the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery of Dental College and hospital in north India starting from april 2014 to march 2016 for the presence of medically compromised conditions. Demographic data of the patients was also collected to determine the frequency of comorbidities that may affect the dental patients older than 30 years of age. Results: A total of 7216 patients visited the oral surgery OPD during the period of april 2014 to march 2016. 5040 patients aged 30 years and above were included in the study. From a total of 5040 patients, 1336 patients (26.5%) were having comorbidities. The age of patients ranged from 30 to 80 years with the mean age ± SD of 45.2 ± 11.6 years. The majority of them (54%) were in the 4th to 6th decades of life. There were 694 male patients (51.95%) and 642 female patients (48.05%). In this study, hypertension was the most prevalent comorbidity accounting for 13.8% of total patients followed by diabetes mellitus( 8.29%) and ischaemic heart disease which accounted for 7.28%.Within the strata of medically compromised individuals , prevalence of hypertension was recorded as high as 52.02 %, followed by diabetes mellitus and cardiovascular disease which has prevalence of 31.29% and 24.27% respectively. Conclusion: It is very important for the attending clinicians to have an exact knowl¬edge of the patient’s medical conditions to provide safe and effective dental treatment.en_US
dc.identifier.citationWalia Inderdeep Singh, Bhatia Lovleen, Singh Amritpal, Kaur Kamaldeep, Duggal Aditya, Ajaypal. Prevalence of Medical Comorbidities in Dental Patients. Annals of International Medical and Dental Research. 2017 Jan-Feb; 3(1): 21-25.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://imsear.searo.who.int/handle/123456789/182032
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.source.urihttps://aimdrjournal.com/pdf/vol3Issue1/DE7_OA_Loveleen.pdfen_US
dc.subjectDental patientsen_US
dc.subjectHypertensionen_US
dc.subjectMedical comorbiditiesen_US
dc.titlePrevalence of Medical Comorbidities in Dental Patients.en_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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