{"id":4742,"date":"2014-10-08T04:00:06","date_gmt":"2014-10-08T04:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elkhorndenture.com\/blog\/sleeping-in-dentures-doubles-the-risk-of-pneumonia-in-the-elderly\/"},"modified":"2014-10-08T04:00:06","modified_gmt":"2014-10-08T04:00:06","slug":"sleeping-in-dentures-doubles-the-risk-of-pneumonia-in-the-elderly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/elkhorndenture.com\/blog\/sleeping-in-dentures-doubles-the-risk-of-pneumonia-in-the-elderly\/","title":{"rendered":"Sleeping in dentures doubles the risk of pneumonia in the elderly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alexandria, Va., USA &#8211; Poor oral health and hygiene are increasingly recognized as major risk factors for pneumonia among the elderly. To identify modifiable oral health-related risk factors, lead researcher Toshimitsu Iinuma, Nihon University School of Dentistry, Japan, and a team of researchers prospectively investigated associations between a constellation of oral health behaviors and incidences of pneumonia in the community-living of elders 85 years of age or older.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.topix.com\/health\/dentures\/2014\/10\/sleeping-in-dentures-doubles-the-risk-of-pneumonia-in-the-elderly?fromrss=1\">Dentures News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alexandria, Va., USA &#8211; Poor oral health and hygiene are increasingly recognized as major risk factors for pneumonia among the elderly. To identify modifiable oral health-related risk factors, lead researcher Toshimitsu Iinuma, Nihon University School of Dentistry, Japan, and a team of researchers prospectively investigated associations between a constellation of oral health behaviors and incidences [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[196,7168,1226,7169,203,7167],"class_list":["post-4742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dental-news","tag-dentures","tag-doubles","tag-elderly","tag-pneumonia","tag-risk","tag-sleeping"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1YapV-1eu","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/elkhorndenture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/elkhorndenture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/elkhorndenture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elkhorndenture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elkhorndenture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/elkhorndenture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/elkhorndenture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elkhorndenture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elkhorndenture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}