Friday, September 26, 2014

"Non Communicable" Diseases

Severe periodontitis: Sixth most prevalent health condition in the world
In 2010, severe periodontitis was the sixth most prevalent condition in the world affecting 743 million people worldwide. Between 1990 and 2010, the global age-standardized prevalence of severe periodontitis was static at 11.2%.

Apparently those numbers have never been calculated before.  Puts them in the top ten.
The most prevalent conditions, as established by the World Health Organization: iron-deficiency anemia, hearing loss, migraine, low vision, asthma, diabetes mellitus, osteoarthritis (OA), and unipolar depressive disorders.
Not to put too fine a point on this- but all of those can be caused by chronic periodontal infection.   Which is communicable dammit.