Periodontitis and Cardiovascular Diseases. Consensus Report

• Main Authors: M. Sanz (Author), A. Marco del Castillo (Author), S. Jepsen (Author), J. R. Gonzalez-Juanatey (Author), F. D'Aiuto (Author), P Bouchard (Author), I. Chapple (Author), T. Dietrich (Author), I. Gotsman (Author), F. Graziani (Author), D. Herrera (Author), B. Loos (Author), P. Madianos (Author), J. B. Michel (Author), P. Perel (Author), B. Pieske (Author), L. Shapira (Author), M. Schechter (Author), M. Tonetti (Author), C. Vlachopoulos (Author), G. Wimmer (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Ubiquity Press, 2020-02-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: In Europe cardiovascular disease (CVD) is responsible for 3.9 million deaths (45% of deaths), being ischaemic heart disease, stroke, hypertension (leading to heart failure) the major cause of these CVD related deaths. Periodontitis is also a chronic non‐communicable disease (NCD) with a...