Cueto Alfredo, Martínez René, Niklander Sven, Deichler Javiera, Barraza Alan, Esguep Alfredo
Department of Public Health, Universidad Andrés Bello, Viña del Mar, Chile.
Gerodontology. 2013 Sep;30(3):201-6. doi: 10.1111/j.1741-2358.2012.00663.x. Epub 2012 Apr 15.
Chilean population is ageing, which means an increase in the prevalence of multiple pathologies, including those located in the oral cavity.
To measure the prevalence and distribution of oral mucosal lesions and to identify associated risk factors in elderly patients in the city of Valparaiso.
This study includes 126 patients over 60 years. The sample was calculated with a sampling error of 3.7% from a population size of 6000 file cards. Frequency and contingency tables were made together with odds ratios, with a confidence interval of 95%. Finally, we built a predictive model based on a binary logistic regression.
From the whole sample, 85 patients (67.5%) had some oral mucosal lesion. The most frequent lesions were denture-induced stomatitis (37.1%). It was noted that there is a statistically significant association between the use of denture and the presence of oral candidiasis. The consumption of drugs and the use of denture increase the likelihood of having oral mucosal lesions.
There is a high prevalence of oral lesions in the elderly patients of Valparaiso. The use of drugs and /or denture increases significantly the likelihood that a person over 60 years presents lesions in the oral mucosa.
智利人口正在老龄化，这意味着包括口腔疾病在内的多种疾病的患病率增加。
测量瓦尔帕莱索市老年患者口腔黏膜病变的患病率和分布情况，并确定相关危险因素。
本研究纳入126例60岁以上患者。样本是从6000张档案卡的人群中计算得出的，抽样误差为3.7%。制作了频率表和列联表以及比值比，置信区间为95%。最后，我们基于二元逻辑回归建立了一个预测模型。
在整个样本中，85例患者（67.5%）有某种口腔黏膜病变。最常见的病变是义齿性口炎（37.1%）。值得注意的是，义齿的使用与口腔念珠菌病的存在之间存在统计学上的显著关联。药物消费和义齿的使用增加了出现口腔黏膜病变的可能性。
瓦尔帕莱索市老年患者口腔病变的患病率很高。药物和/或义齿的使用显著增加了60岁以上人群口腔黏膜出现病变的可能性。
