Title: Correlation between BMI and Chronic Periodontitis
Authors: Dr Maya Indurkar, Dr Namita Dewan
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.18535/jmscr/v6i3.173
Abstract
Introduction
Obesity is defined as abnormal or excessive fat accumulation that may impair health. WHO estimated that in 2016, more than 1.9 billion adults, 18 years and older, were overweight. Of these over 650 million were obese 1 Obesity has become a severe health threat worldwide. Being overweight and obese are important risk factors for various adult diseases, including type 2 diabetes, hyperlipidemia, hypertension, cholelithiasis, arteriosclerosis, and cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease.
Recently, obesity has emerged as one of the risk indicators of periodontal disease.The first report on the relationship between obesity and periodontal disease appeared in 1977, when Perlstein et al. found that alveolar bone resorption was greater in obese animals compared to the non-obese rats. The underlying biological mechanisms for the association of obesity with periodontitis are not well known; However, adiposetissue– derived cytokines and hormones may play a key role.2
