{"id":192290,"date":"2017-08-02T18:50:23","date_gmt":"2017-08-02T18:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/gum-disease-tied-to-cancer-risk-in-older-women\/"},"modified":"2017-08-02T18:50:23","modified_gmt":"2017-08-02T18:50:23","slug":"gum-disease-tied-to-cancer-risk-in-older-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/gum-disease-tied-to-cancer-risk-in-older-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Gum Disease Tied to Cancer Risk in Older Women"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"media-100000004647039\" class=\"media photo lede layout-small-horizontal\" role=\"group\"><span class=\"visually-hidden\">Photo<\/span><\/p>\n<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2016\/09\/14\/well\/well_pog_cancer\/well_pog_cancer-master315-v2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"media-viewer-candidate\" \/><br \/>\n    <\/figure>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\">Periodontal disease in older women is associated with an increased risk for cancer, a new study concludes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\">Previous studies have suggested a link, but this new analysis, in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers  Prevention<\/a>, offers additional evidence on specific cancers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\">Researchers followed more than 65,000 women, average age 68, participating in a larger health study. They gathered information on periodontal disease with self-reports, and over an average of eight years of follow-up, they found 7,149 cancers.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Continue reading the main story<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" id=\"story-continues-1\">The study controlled for race, age, family history of cancer, smoking and other variables. Gum disease was associated with an overall 14 percent increased risk for cancer, and a 12 percent increase even in women who never smoked.<\/p>\n<p>        Continue reading the main story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo Periodontal disease in older women is associated with an increased risk for cancer, a new study concludes. Previous studies have suggested a link, but this new analysis, in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers Prevention, offers additional evidence on specific cancers. Researchers followed more than 65,000 women, average age 68, participating in a larger health study. They <a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/gum-disease-tied-to-cancer-risk-in-older-women\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}