Microorganisms also get more opportunities to enter the gums, increasing the risk of gingivitis and severe periodontitis, which can lead to tooth loss
Influence of maternal smoking on neonatal aortic intima-media thickness, serum IGF-I and IGFBP-3 levels
For local cortical thickness analyses, a t -value was calculated for the slope of the -coefficient (estimated from the regression model) of the variable of interest (for example, pack-years or number of years since last cigarette depending on the analysis) at each cortical point, thereby producing a three-dimensional t -statistic map
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