
handle: 10893/2307
Resumen: Recientes estudios epidemiológicos de riesgo cardiovascular hansugerido una relación entre la enfermedad periodontal con el desarrollo de ateroesclerosis. Unmecanismo probable de este vínculo es la alteración de la función endotelial por el estadoinflamatorio sistémico de la enfermedad periodontal. La disfunción endotelial en pacientes conenfermedad periodontal ha sido expuesta en varios estudios epidemiológicos de corte transversal yalgunos estudios recientes de intervención periodontal. El impacto del tratamiento periodontal parala prevención de las enfermedades cardiovasculares debe ser aclarado en futuros ensayos clínicos amayor escala. Sin embargo, la posibilidad de que el tratamiento periodontal disminuye lamorbi-mortalidad cardiovascular puede tener un impacto importante en las políticas de salud pública,donde las enfermedades cardiovasculares son la primera causa de mortalidad en Colombia y muchosotros países. El propósito de este artículo es identificar las principales relacionesfisiopatológicas entre la periodontitis y la enfermedad cardiovascular. Revista Estomatología 2005;13(2): 18-26. Palabras clave: Enfermedad cardiovascular. Eetiología. Prevención. Enfermedadperiodontal. Disfunción endotelial. Summary: Recent studies addressing cardiovascular risk factorssuggest a relationship between periodontal disease and the development of atherosclerosis. Aprobable mechanism of this link is the alteration of the endothelial function by the systemicinflammatory state related to periodontal disease. The endothelial dysfunction in patients withperiodontal disease has been exposed in several cross-sectional epidemiological studies and somerecent studies of periodontal intervention (clinical trials). The impact of the periodontaltreatment in the prevention of cardiovascular diseases has to be clarified in future and biggerclinical trials. Nevertheless, the possibility that the periodontal treatment diminishescardiovascular morbimortality may have an important impact in public health policies, sincecardiovascular diseases are the first cause of mortality in Colombia and many other countries. Theaim of this paper is to identify the main physiopathological relationships between periodontitis andcardiovascular disease. Key words: Cardiovascular disease. Aetiology. Prevention. Periodontaldisease. Endothelial dysfunction.
Endotelio vascular, Enfermedades periodontales, Enfermedades cardiovasculares
Endotelio vascular, Enfermedades periodontales, Enfermedades cardiovasculares
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