>http://www.diabetes.org/diabetesnewsarticle.jsp?storyId=14672365&filename=20070319/reuters20070319health00000005reutershealthewEDIT.xml
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>Animal Study Links Prediabetes And Gum Disease
>People with "prediabetes" may want to pay close
>attention to their dental health, if new animal
>research findings apply to humans. In experiments
>with rats, Dutch researchers found that animals
>with a condition that mimics prediabetes were more
>susceptible to developing periodontitis, which
>causes the gums to recede and the bone supporting
>the teeth to erode. Periodontitis, in turn, seemed
>to promote the animals' progression to full-blown
>diabetes.
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>Whether the same is true of humans is unknown,
>according to lead study author Dr. Carla C. Pontes
>Andersen, of the University of Copenhagen School
>of Dentistry. Nonetheless, she told Reuters
>Health, until studies investigate this, "it seems
>reasonable that prediabetes patients should take
>care of their gums."
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>Oral Health & Oral Hygiene
>http://www.diabetes.org/type-2-diabetes/mouth-care.jsp
>
>Pre-Diabetes
>http://www.diabetes.org/pre-diabetes.jsp
>

Hi kate

An important subject for us.

Actually, I would disagree with "Whether the same is true of humans is unknown". I replied to Gys on this in a different thread and wrote on it earlier here: http://loraldiabetes.blogspot.com/2006/11/teeth-gums-diabetes-and-death.html

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