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Dental disease hits hardest among older blacks

e, but the same was not true for blacks.

"In fact, blacks in the higher education group exhibited prevalences of periodontitis that were 2.3 and 4.9 times higher than their white or Mexican-American counterparts, respectively," Borrell and colleagues say.

"Mexican Americans exhibited the lowest prevalence of periodontitis regardless of their income or education," they add.

The researchers suggest a number of factors, from stress to the "historical implications of unequal opportunities for blacks in our society," might help explain the high levels of dental disease among older black people.


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Contact: Randee Sacks
rs363@columbia.edu
212-305-8044
Center for the Advancement of Health
29-Apr-2004


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