Dental Health and Mortality in People With End-Stage Kidney Disease Treated With Hemodialysis: A Multinational Cohort Study

Background Dental disease is more extensive in adults with chronic kidney disease, but whether dental health and behaviors are associated with survival in the setting of hemodialysis is unknown. Study Design Prospective multinational cohort. Setting & Participants 4,205 adults treated with long-term hemodialysis, 2010 to 2012 (Oral Diseases in Hemodialysis [ORAL-D] Study). Predictors Dental health as assessed by a standardized dental examination using World Health Organization guidelines and personal oral care, including edentulousness; decayed, missing, and filled teeth index; teeth brushing and flossing; and dental health consultation. Outcomes All-cause and cardiovascular mortality at 12 months after dental assessment. Measurements Multivariable-adjusted Cox proportional hazards regression models fitted with shared frailty to account for clustering of mortality risk within countries. Results During a mean follow-up of 22.1 months, 942 deaths occurred, including 477 cardiovascular deaths. Edentulousness (adjusted HR, 1.29; 95% CI, 1.10-1.51) and decayed, missing, or filled teeth score ≥ 14 (adjusted HR, 1.70; 95% CI, 1.33-2.17) were associated with early all-cause mortality, while dental flossing, using mouthwash, brushing teeth daily, spending at least 2 minutes on oral hygiene daily, changing a toothbrush at least every 3 months, and visiting a dentist within the past 6 months (adjusted HRs of 0.52 [95% CI, 0.32-0.85], 0.79 [95% CI, 0.64-0.97], 0.76 [95% CI, 0.58-0.99], 0.84 [95% CI, 0.71-0.99], 0.79 [95% CI, 0.65-0.95], and 0.79 [95% CI, 0.65-0.96], respectively) were associated with better survival. Results for cardiovascular mortality were similar. Limitations Convenience sample of clinics. Conclusions In adults treated with hemodialysis, poorer dental health was associated with early death, whereas preventive dental health practices were associated with longer survival

Catalogación de especies de las familias Carabidae, Cicindelidae y Staphylinidae en el suelo de los cítricos de la provincia de Valencia, España

Se ha realizado un estudio de catalogación de las especies de coleópteros de las familias Cicindelidae, Carabidae y Staphylinidae, presentes en el suelo de cítricos de la provincia de Valencia. Para ello, se escogieron cuatro huertos de cítricos sometidos a diferentes tipos de manejo agrícola y se realizaron muestreos de estas familias desde agosto de 2003 hasta diciembre de 2004. El método de trampeo utilizado fue el de trampas de gravedad (pitfall traps), colocándose 12 trampas en cada uno de los huertos y recogiéndose éstas con una periodicidad de 14 días aproximadamente. En total se catalogaron 4.109 individuos pertenecientes a estas tres familias. La familia Staphylinidae fue la que mayor abundancia presentó con 2.567 individuos, de la familia Carabidae se recogieron 1.380 individuos y de Cicindelidae 162. Las especies más abundantes de Staphylinidae fueron Anotylus inustus (Gravenhorst, 1806), Atheta (Xenota) mucronata Kraazt, 1858 y Platystethus cornutus Gravenhorst, 1802, sumando entre las tres el 82% de los individuos capturados de esta familia. Pseudophonus (s.tr) rufipes (Degeer, 1774) y Harpalus distinguendus (Duftschmid, 1812) fueron las especies de carábidos dominantes en las cuatro parcelas estudiadas, representando el 86% de la población total de carábidos. El 99% de las cicindelas catalogadas fueron Cicindela campestris Linné,1758

Revision of the New World Species of Oedichirus (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae: Pinophilini: PROCIRRINA)

Fig. 20. Oedichirus geniculatus, Pterothorax, ventral. Inset to illustrate puncture with minute seta near anterior margin (SEM).Published as part of Herman, Lee H., 2013, Revision Of The New World Species Of Oedichirus (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae: Pinophilini: Procirrina), pp. 1-137 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2013 (375) on page 23, DOI: 10.1206/816.1, http://zenodo.org/record/540123

Primer catálogo de invertebrados habitantes de las pequeñas islas mediterráneas cercanas a la costa almeriense (Almería, España) (Eumetazoa, Arthropoda y Mollusca).

©2022 Real Sociedad Española de Historia Natural. This document is the Published version of a Published Work that appeared in final form in Boletín de la Real Sociedad Española de Historia Natural. To access the final edited and published work see https://doi.org/ 10.29077/bol.116.ce02.gomezFirst faunistic results of a collaborative study about the terrestrial invertebrates present in three small islands near the coast of the province of Almeria (Spain) are presented. A total of 385 individuals were captured (373 arthropods and 12 mollusks). From these samplings 118 different species have been identified and three others are under study. Our results provide new insight into the invertebrate diversity of these small islands. Of special interest is the finding of several rare species which could represents new taxa for science, namely a chloropid in the genus Conioscinella and a braconid of the subfamily Microgastrinae. Several new reports are also relevant, specially the first European record of the phoretic mite Hypoaspis phyllognathi. With respect to Andalusia, we provide the first record of the encirtid Ericydnus aeneus. Referring to Almería province, we report for the first time the chilopod Algerophilus hispanicus, the springtails Hemisotoma pontica, Xenylla mediterranea and Anurida maritima, and the stafilinids Aleochara bipustulata and Atheta pallidicornis. Taxa with morphological differences have been found with respect to their counterparts in the continental zone, and other rare species in the peninsular area, such as Tetragnatha intermedia or Cryptocephalus espanoli. Other records of interest about the dipteran fauna of these small islands, already published previously, are included as a comprehensive summary of the invertebrate fauna of the studied area. By islands, San Andrés and Terreros have presented the greatest variety in taxa, 61 and 60 respectively, while on Isla Negra, only 22 have been recorded

Dental Health and Mortality in People With End-Stage Kidney Disease Treated With Hemodialysis: A Multinational Cohort Study

BackgroundDental disease is more extensive in adults with chronic kidney disease, but whether dental health and behaviors are associated with survival in the setting of hemodialysis is unknown.Study DesignProspective multinational cohort.Setting & Participants4,205 adults treated with long-term hemodialysis, 2010 to 2012 (Oral Diseases in Hemodialysis [ORAL-D] Study).PredictorsDental health as assessed by a standardized dental examination using World Health Organization guidelines and personal oral care, including edentulousness; decayed, missing, and filled teeth index; teeth brushing and flossing; and dental health consultation.OutcomesAll-cause and cardiovascular mortality at 12 months after dental assessment.MeasurementsMultivariable-adjusted Cox proportional hazards regression models fitted with shared frailty to account for clustering of mortality risk within countries.ResultsDuring a mean follow-up of 22.1 months, 942 deaths occurred, including 477 cardiovascular deaths. Edentulousness (adjusted HR, 1.29; 95% CI, 1.10-1.51) and decayed, missing, or filled teeth score ≥ 14 (adjusted HR, 1.70; 95% CI, 1.33-2.17) were associated with early all-cause mortality, while dental flossing, using mouthwash, brushing teeth daily, spending at least 2 minutes on oral hygiene daily, changing a toothbrush at least every 3 months, and visiting a dentist within the past 6 months (adjusted HRs of 0.52 [95% CI, 0.32-0.85], 0.79 [95% CI, 0.64-0.97], 0.76 [95% CI, 0.58-0.99], 0.84 [95% CI, 0.71-0.99], 0.79 [95% CI, 0.65-0.95], and 0.79 [95% CI, 0.65-0.96], respectively) were associated with better survival. Results for cardiovascular mortality were similar.LimitationsConvenience sample of clinics.ConclusionsIn adults treated with hemodialysis, poorer dental health was associated with early death, whereas preventive dental health practices were associated with longer survival