To Evaluate the Relationship between Overweight/Obesity Status, Sugar Consumption, and Dental Caries among 12–15-year-old School Children of Moradabad City

Background: Childhood is alluring phase of everybody’s life. Sugar intake play an key role in dental caries. Childhood obesity leads to adolescent obesity if we do not change the habits and the lifestyle of a child. Aim: This study aims to evaluate the relationship between overweight/obesity status,...

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Main Authors: Supurna Pandit, Pradeep Tangade, Jeevan Josh, Sanchit Pradhan, Mohnish Muchhal, Aditya Veer Singh
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Language:English
Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications 2024-12-01
Series:Journal of Indian Association of Public Health Dentistry
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Online Access:https://journals.lww.com/10.4103/jiaphd.jiaphd_140_24
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author Supurna Pandit
Pradeep Tangade
Jeevan Josh
Sanchit Pradhan
Mohnish Muchhal
Aditya Veer Singh
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Pradeep Tangade
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Sanchit Pradhan
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description Background: Childhood is alluring phase of everybody’s life. Sugar intake play an key role in dental caries. Childhood obesity leads to adolescent obesity if we do not change the habits and the lifestyle of a child. Aim: This study aims to evaluate the relationship between overweight/obesity status, sugar consumption and dental caries among 12–15-year-old school children of Moradabad city. Setting and Design: The cross-sectional study was undertaken in various schools of Moradabad city using random sampling. Materials and Methods: The study was conducted on the 600 school-going kids of 12–15-year of the Moradabad city. Questionnaire was given to the school-going children to record their sugar consumption and their oral hygiene practice to record dentition status World Health Organization Oral health Assessment form for Children, 2013 was used. Intra-examiner variability was controlled by calibration of investigator before conducting the examination. Statistical Analysis Used: The statistical analysis was done using SPSS Version 20 (IBM software released since 2015). ANOVA, post hoc test was used. Results: Examination of 600 school-going kids was done. It was found that boys were more likely to have caries as compared to girls (Odds ratio [OR] =1.92, confidence interval [CI] =1.15–3.45). Similarly, overweight / obese children had 3.54 times higher chance of having carious than low/normal-weight children (CI = 1.83–7.26). Children with more than once a day sugar consumption had higher chance of caries than who consumed once per day (OR = 3.23, CI = 1.20–7.92). Conclusion: There was a significant association between overweight / obesity and caries experience among school children of 12–15 years of Moradabad city. Obesity and dental caries have common risk determinants and require a comprehensive multidisciplinary approach to pediatric patients by both medical and dental healthcare professionals.
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spelling doaj-art-ab810f91865a42f58de3f5af614834cd2025-02-06T09:54:57ZengWolters Kluwer Medknow PublicationsJournal of Indian Association of Public Health Dentistry2319-59322350-04842024-12-0122438739110.4103/jiaphd.jiaphd_140_24To Evaluate the Relationship between Overweight/Obesity Status, Sugar Consumption, and Dental Caries among 12–15-year-old School Children of Moradabad CitySupurna PanditPradeep TangadeJeevan JoshSanchit PradhanMohnish MuchhalAditya Veer SinghBackground: Childhood is alluring phase of everybody’s life. Sugar intake play an key role in dental caries. Childhood obesity leads to adolescent obesity if we do not change the habits and the lifestyle of a child. Aim: This study aims to evaluate the relationship between overweight/obesity status, sugar consumption and dental caries among 12–15-year-old school children of Moradabad city. Setting and Design: The cross-sectional study was undertaken in various schools of Moradabad city using random sampling. Materials and Methods: The study was conducted on the 600 school-going kids of 12–15-year of the Moradabad city. Questionnaire was given to the school-going children to record their sugar consumption and their oral hygiene practice to record dentition status World Health Organization Oral health Assessment form for Children, 2013 was used. Intra-examiner variability was controlled by calibration of investigator before conducting the examination. Statistical Analysis Used: The statistical analysis was done using SPSS Version 20 (IBM software released since 2015). ANOVA, post hoc test was used. Results: Examination of 600 school-going kids was done. It was found that boys were more likely to have caries as compared to girls (Odds ratio [OR] =1.92, confidence interval [CI] =1.15–3.45). Similarly, overweight / obese children had 3.54 times higher chance of having carious than low/normal-weight children (CI = 1.83–7.26). Children with more than once a day sugar consumption had higher chance of caries than who consumed once per day (OR = 3.23, CI = 1.20–7.92). Conclusion: There was a significant association between overweight / obesity and caries experience among school children of 12–15 years of Moradabad city. Obesity and dental caries have common risk determinants and require a comprehensive multidisciplinary approach to pediatric patients by both medical and dental healthcare professionals.https://journals.lww.com/10.4103/jiaphd.jiaphd_140_24body mass indexdental cariesobesityoverweightsugar consumption
spellingShingle Supurna Pandit
Pradeep Tangade
Jeevan Josh
Sanchit Pradhan
Mohnish Muchhal
Aditya Veer Singh
To Evaluate the Relationship between Overweight/Obesity Status, Sugar Consumption, and Dental Caries among 12–15-year-old School Children of Moradabad City
Journal of Indian Association of Public Health Dentistry
body mass index
dental caries
obesity
overweight
sugar consumption
title To Evaluate the Relationship between Overweight/Obesity Status, Sugar Consumption, and Dental Caries among 12–15-year-old School Children of Moradabad City
title_full To Evaluate the Relationship between Overweight/Obesity Status, Sugar Consumption, and Dental Caries among 12–15-year-old School Children of Moradabad City
title_fullStr To Evaluate the Relationship between Overweight/Obesity Status, Sugar Consumption, and Dental Caries among 12–15-year-old School Children of Moradabad City
title_full_unstemmed To Evaluate the Relationship between Overweight/Obesity Status, Sugar Consumption, and Dental Caries among 12–15-year-old School Children of Moradabad City
title_short To Evaluate the Relationship between Overweight/Obesity Status, Sugar Consumption, and Dental Caries among 12–15-year-old School Children of Moradabad City
title_sort to evaluate the relationship between overweight obesity status sugar consumption and dental caries among 12 15 year old school children of moradabad city
topic body mass index
dental caries
obesity
overweight
sugar consumption
url https://journals.lww.com/10.4103/jiaphd.jiaphd_140_24
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