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Tooth brushing for a longer and healthier life

Author: E. E. van der Wall

Published in: Netherlands Heart Journal | Issue 3/2016

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Patients with coronary artery disease (CAD) who have no teeth have nearly double the risk of death compared with CAD patients with all of their teeth, according to research performed at the Uppsala Clinical Research Center, Uppsala, Sweden, and published in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology in December 2015 [1]. …

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Title: Tooth brushing for a longer and healthier life
Author: E. E. van der Wall
Publication date: 01-03-2016
Publisher: Bohn Stafleu van Loghum
Published in: Netherlands Heart Journal / Issue 3/2016
Print ISSN: 1568-5888
Electronic ISSN: 1876-6250
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12471-016-0802-1

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