Association between dental caries and adherence to the Mediterranean diet, dietary intake, and body mass index in children    
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Doç. Dr. Kübra ESİN Tokat Gaziosmanpaşa Üniversitesi, Türkiye
Beyza Ballı Akgöl
Türkiye
Dr. Öğr. Üyesi Saniye SÖZLÜ Tokat Gaziosmanpaşa Üniversitesi, Türkiye
Betül Kocaadam Bozkurt
Erzurum Teknik Üniversitesi, Türkiye
Makale Türü Açık Erişim Özgün Makale
Makale Alt Türü SSCI, AHCI, SCI, SCI-Exp dergilerinde yayınlanan tam makale
Dergi Adı BMC Oral Health
Dergi ISSN 1472-6831 Wos Dergi Scopus Dergi
Dergi Tarandığı Indeksler SCI-Expanded
Dergi Grubu Q1
Makale Dili İngilizce
Basım Tarihi 03-2024
Cilt No 24
DOI Numarası 10.1186/s12903-024-04020-3
Makale Linki https://doi.org/10.1186/s12903-024-04020-3
Özet
BackgroundChildren with healthier nutritional status are less likely to develop severe caries than those with a high-sugar content diet. Studies evaluating dental caries and nutritional status in school-age children have generally focused on dietary intake, diet quality, or anthropometric measures, and the number of studies evaluating them together is limited.ObjectiveIt was aimed to evaluate the relationship between dental caries adherence to the Mediterranean Diet (MD), dietary intake, and Body Mass Index (BMI) in school-age children.Materials and methodsThis study was conducted with 300 healthy children (52.0% boys, 48.0% girls) aged between 6 and 12 years. The data collection forms included sociodemographic characteristics, oral health practices of children, Mediterranean Diet Quality Index for children and adolescents (KIDMED), and food consumption records. Anthropometric measurements (body …
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