Are diabetes and obesity linked to periodontitis?
Tuesday, September 2, 2008 - 15:56
in Health & Medicine
The University of Illinois at Chicago has received a two-year federal grant to continue a study on how periodontitis, an inflammatory disease of the tissues surrounding teeth, is linked to type 2 diabetes and obesity.
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