A Survey on Remaining Teeth and Life-style for prevention of Osteoporosis

本研究的目的是为了证明从大量的当地居民中发现骨质疏松症患者的牙齿脱落情况是一个简单的指征的假设。对460名当地居民进行ni、其剩余牙齿及相关生活方式的调查。大多数受试者是农民。生活方式调查包括吸烟或饮酒习惯、饮食习惯、运动习惯、刷牙习惯、生活习惯等20项。采用DEXA法测定鸟取大学附属医院83例骨质疏松症门诊女性患者的骨密度。在数据处理中心使用统计软件包SAS，采用量化理论第一类方法进行分析。结果是：1；在生活方式方面，从问卷调查中可以看出健康习惯的倾向。生活方式与留牙数的关系在年龄上最为显著。确定女性骨质疏松症患者的生活方式与骨密度的关系。结论：骨密度与剩牙数的关系尚不明显，不能作为从大量当地居民中筛查骨质疏松患者的简单指标。

The urpose of this study is to demonstrate the hypothesis that the condition of teeth loss is a simple indicatior finding osteoporosis patients from mass screening of a numberof local residents.The search for ni, ber f remaining teeth and related life-style of local residents(n=460) was conducted. Most of subjects were farmer. The survey on life-style was 20 items, e.g., smoking or drinking habits, diet, exerise, teeth-brushing, anamnase and so on.While the determination of bone mineral density of 83 female subjects who ere all of outpatients suffering osteoporosis coming to Tottori University Hospital were performed by DEXA method.Analysis was carried out by the method of quantification theory type I using statistical program package, SAS, at Data Processing Center.The results are ;1. On their life-style it reveals the tendencies of healthy habits from the questionaire.2. The relation beween life-style and numbers of reaining teethis the most siquificant on age.3. The relation between life-style and bone mineral density is defined on female osteoporosis patients.It is cncluded that the relation between bone mineral density and number of remaining teeth has less evident to be a brief indicator for screening osteoporosis patients froma large number of local residents.