Study finds over 90 percent of people with gum disease are at risk for diabetes

Monday, December 14, 2009 - 12:14 in Health & Medicine

The study, led by Dr. Shiela Strauss, Associate Professor of Nursing and Co-Director of the Statistics and Data Management Core for NYU's Colleges of Dentistry and Nursing, examined data from 2,923 adult participants in the 2003-2004 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey who had not been diagnosed with diabetes. Link:  http://www.nyu.edu

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