Associations between early childhood caries, malnutrition and anemia: a global perspective

Foláyan, Morẹ́nikẹ́ Oluwátóyìn; Tantawi, Maha El; Schroth, Robert J; Vuković, Ana; Kemoli, Arthur; Gaffar, Balgis; Obiyan, Mary O.

doi:10.1186/s40795-020-00340-z

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“…Assessing the quality of evidence contained within a systematic review is as important as analyzing the data within. NIH quality assessment tool, as shown in Table 1 revealed that four articles were of good quality, 22 27 32 33 two other articles were in the fair category, 13 20 while four articles were of poor quality or had high potential for bias. 7 23 24 31…”

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Does Growth Stunting Correlate with Oral Health in Children?: A Systematic Review

2021

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Growth stunting is when children tend to be shorter than their peers through the World Health Organization child growth standard measurement. The condition may affect the development of the brain and other parts of the body, including the oral cavity, which manifests in oral hygiene and overall oral health. This systematic approach literature study aimed to evaluate the correlation between growth stunting and oral health in children. This study was conducted by using a literature review method with a systematic approach by searching for articles related to research topics on PubMed and Google Scholar. The search was adjusted to the inclusion category, which is research that discusses malnutrition and oral health published between 2010 and 2020—research conducted on boys and girls—from birth to 18 years. The exclusion categories used were articles that did not discuss growth stunting and oral health, and grey literature was excluded. The selection of articles was carried out by using the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) approach and resulted in 10 selected articles with details as follows: the correlation between growth stunting and oral health in three articles. A high plaque index in growth stunting children was found in two articles, and a decrease in saliva composition in growth stunting children was also found in two articles. Four articles showed a relationship between growth stunting and salivary flow rate. Lastly, one article showed the relationship between growth stunting and the incidence of dental caries. Despite the limitation of the review, the correlation between growth stunting and overall oral health in children can be seen through the oral hygiene index as moderate to low, high plaque index, decreased salivary flow rate, salivary composition, and dental caries in children with growth stunting.

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Does Growth Stunting Correlate with Oral Health in Children?: A Systematic Review

2021

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“…Different factors like socioeconomic condition, diet, race, and sleep patterns can affect anemia. These factors vary in various communities (12,24,37). One of the differences between this study and similar studies is that this study only included case-control studies to reduce the possible socioeconomic effects in different societies.…”

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“…Gurunathan et al (23) also revealed in their review that children with S-ECC seemed to have significantly higher odds of IDA. In addition, Folayan et al (24) indicated that anemia had an inverse relationship with ECC in older preschool children.…”

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Iron Deficiency Anemia in Children with and Without Dental Caries: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Amrollahi

Tarrahi

2022

Iran J Pediatr

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Context: Dental caries is a complication affecting the health of society, so it is vital to manage. Most children with early childhood caries (ECC) are believed to undergo anemia, altered physical growth patterns, and low weight. Objectives: This study aimed to evaluate the relationship between dental caries and iron deficiency anemia (IDA) in children. Evidence Acquisition: The medical subject headings (MeSH) and non-MeSH were applied to choose the search terms. English language case-control studies assessing blood factors associated with IDA in children with and without dental caries were potentially eligible. Two independent researchers carried out an electronic search to retrieve studies published in the English language on Scopus, ProQuest, PubMed, and Web of Science databases in October 2020. Initially, 494 articles were obtained. Of them, 17 were eligible for inclusion, of which eight studies were eliminated. The meta-analysis was done using the comprehensive meta-analysis software (version 2, Biostat). The forest plots estimated the mean difference and depicted the results of the meta-analysis. The Egger's and Begg's tests assessed the publication bias. Results: A significant difference was observed in serum ferritin levels between the case and control groups, with a mean difference of -0.230 (95% confidence interval (CI): -0.446 to -0.015; P value = 0.008). Blood hemoglobin and mean corpuscular volume (MCV) levels indicated significant mean differences of -0.991 (95% CI: -1.813 to -0.169) and -0.807 (95% CI: -1.336 to -0.279), respectively (P value < 0001). In the case group, all three blood parameters were significantly lower. Conclusions: Hemoglobin, serum ferritin, and MCV levels are lower in children with dental caries than in caries-free children.

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“…Moreover, the probability of developing ECC is positively correlated with the degree of dietary imbalance. Dietary imbalance will lead to malnutrition with varying degrees, which in turn will result in the hypofunction of salivary glands, and the variation in saliva composition and the decline in buffering ability of saliva, increasing the risk of ECC [31,32]. The diet quality of preschool children will affect their diet quality both at the school age and adulthood [33], and is associated with the incidence of chronic diseases and even death at the adulthood and old age [34,35].…”

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Correlations between diet quality and early childhood caries among 2- to 5-year-old Chinese children：A cross-sectional study

Wang

Lei

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Background: Early childhood caries (ECC) is one of the most common chronic diseases among children. Diet quality assessment is better than single food or specific nutrient assessment in predicting the risk of ECC. This study is aimed to explore the correlations between diet quality and ECC among 2- to 5-year-old Chinese children. Methods: Totally 150 two- to five-year-old children were selected in this study. The decayed, missing or filled surface (dmfs) of each child was examined and recorded. Then the children were divided by ages and dmfs scores into the caries-free group, ECC group, and severe ECC (SECC) group respectively. The information of 24-h dietary intake from each child was captured via a mobile APP. The diet quality of each child was assessed by calculating the Chinese diet balance index for preschool children (DBI_C) indicators scores, high bound score (HBS), low bound score (LBS) and diet quality distance (DQD). Correlations of HBS, LBS, DQD and scores of 10 food group indicators with ECC were evaluated using rank sum test and logistic regression analysis.Results: The probabilities of ECC and SECC are positively correlated with HBS (OR: ECC=1.102, SECC=1.098) and with DQD (OR: ECC=1.117, SECC=1.114), but not correlated with LBS (P>0.05) among the 2- to 5-year-old children. The severity of caries among the 2- to 5-year-old children are positively correlated with the score of Grains (OR: ECC=1.322, SECC=2.929) and negatively with the score of Food diversity (OR: ECC=0.378, SECC=0.034), but not correlated with other indicators. Conclusions: The possibilities of ECC and SECC among the 2- to 5-year-old children are positively correlated with the degree of excessive dietary intake and dietary imbalance. The severity of caries among the 2- to 5-year-old children is positively correlated with grains intake and negatively with food diversity.

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Associations between early childhood caries, malnutrition and anemia: a global perspective

Cited by 20 publications

References 48 publications

Does Growth Stunting Correlate with Oral Health in Children?: A Systematic Review

Does Growth Stunting Correlate with Oral Health in Children?: A Systematic Review

Iron Deficiency Anemia in Children with and Without Dental Caries: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Correlations between diet quality and early childhood caries among 2- to 5-year-old Chinese children：A cross-sectional study

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