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Abstract

Short stature in children is a marker of low nutritional status and has been suggested to be associated with dental caries. However, longitudinal studies on this topic are scarce. Data from a longitudinal study of elementary school children in Adachi City, Tokyo, Japan, were analyzed. In 2015, caregivers of children at grade 1 answered questionnaires, and information on dental caries and height measured at school health checkups was merged and followed to grade 6 (N = 3576; follow up rate = 83.3%). The association between short stature at grade 1 (−2.01 standard deviation (SD)–−3.00 SD, or <−3.00 SD in height-for-age according to the World Health Organization criteria) and the number of decayed, missing, or filled permanent teeth (DMFT) at grade 6 was examined using multivariable Poisson regression with robust standard error. After adjusting for confounders, children with a short stature at grade 1 had a higher DMFT number at grade 6: the mean ratios (95% confidence interval) were 1.17 (0.89–1.54) and 2.18 (1.03–4.64) for children with a height-for-age −2.01 SD–−3.00 SD, and those with a height-for-age < −3.00, respectively. Short stature at grade 1 could be a marker of future dental caries in the permanent teeth at grade 6.

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Title
Association between Short Stature at Grade 1 and Permanent Teeth Caries at Grade 6 in Elementary School Children in Japan: A Population-Based Cohort Study
Author
Suzuki, Ayako 1 ; Tani, Yukako 2   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Anzai, Tatsuhiko 3   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Isumi, Aya 4   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Doi, Satomi 4   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Ogawa, Takuya 1 ; Moriyama, Keiji 1   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Fujiwara, Takeo 5   VIAFID ORCID Logo 

 Department of Maxillofacial Orthognathics, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo 113-8519, Japan; [email protected] (A.S.); [email protected] (T.O.); [email protected] (K.M.) 
 Department of Global Health Promotion, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo 113-8519, Japan; [email protected] 
 Department of Biostatistics, M&D Data Science Center, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo 113-8519, Japan; [email protected] 
 Department of Health Policy, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo 113-8519, Japan; [email protected] (A.I.); [email protected] (S.D.) 
 Department of Global Health Promotion, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo 113-8519, Japan; [email protected]; Department of International Health, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA 
First page
105
Publication year
2024
Publication date
2024
Publisher
MDPI AG
ISSN
1661-7827
e-ISSN
1660-4601
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2918765353
Copyright
© 2024 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.