Association between Periodontitis and Carotid Artery Calcification: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

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Association between periodontitis and carotid artery calcification. Subgroup analysis forest plots for odd ratio of periodontitis in relationship to carotid artery calcification status in cross-sectional studies. (a) Analysis adjusted for nonconfident definition of periodontitis as described in methods. (b) Analysis for percent alveolar bone loss and carotid artery calcification. The random-effect model was used.

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