Aspiration Pneumonia: Dental and Oral Risk Factors in an Older Veteran Population - Terpenning, Margaret S.; Taylor, George W.; Lopatin, Dennis E.; Kerr, Connie Kinder; Dominguez, B. Liza; Loesche, Walter J. (Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (JAGS), 2001)
Keywords: Activities of Daily Living; Age Distribution; Age Factors; Aged; Aged, 80 and over; aspiration pneumonia; Biological and medical sciences; Clinical trials; Dental Caries - complications; Dental Caries - microbiology; Dental health; Dental Plaque - complications; Dental Plaque - microbiology; dental risk factors; Diabetes Complications; Elderly people; Geriatric Assessment; Health risk assessment; Humans; Incidence; Logistic Models; Lung Diseases, Obstructive - complications; Medical sciences; Michigan - epidemiology; Mouth, Edentulous - complications; Older people; older veterans; Oral Health; Pneumology; Pneumonia; Pneumonia, Aspiration - epidemiology; Pneumonia, Aspiration - etiology; Respiratory system : syndromes and miscellaneous diseases; Risk Factors; Saliva - microbiology; Staphylococcal Infections - complications; Staphylococcal Infections - microbiology; Staphylococcus aureus; Streptococcal Infections - complications; Streptococcal Infections - microbiology; Streptococcus sobrinus; Stroke - complications; USA; Veterans; Veterans - statistics & numerical data; United States; North America; America; Michigan; Human; Lung disease; Respiratory disease; Aspiration pneumonia; Dental disease; Risk factor; Veteran; Epidemiology; Elderly; Trauma; Public health