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Holzer J, Canavan M, Bradley E
County-level correlation between adult obesity rates and prevalence of dentists.
The researchers conducted a study to examine the association between the prevalence of dentists and the rates of adult obesity. They found that having one additional dentist per 10,000 population was associated significantly with a 1-percentage point reduction in the rate of obesity. This effect was significantly larger in counties in which 25 percent of children or more (versus less than 25 percent of children) lived in poverty and in counties that had more primary care physicians per 10,000 population.
AHRQ-funded; HS017589.
Citation:
Holzer J, Canavan M, Bradley E .
County-level correlation between adult obesity rates and prevalence of dentists.
J Am Dent Assoc 2014 Sep;145(9):932-9. doi: 10.14219/jada.2014.48.
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Keywords:
Dental and Oral Health, Obesity, Risk, Social Determinants of Health, Value
