Prevalence of perceived symptoms of dry mouth in an adult Swedish population ‐ relation to age, sex and pharmacotherapy

作者：Tommy Nederfors, Rose‐Marie Isaksson, HÅKAN MÖRNSTAD, C. G. H. Dahlöf · 发表于：Community Dentistry And Oral Epidemiology · 年份：1997 · DOI：10.1111/j.1600-0528.1997.tb00928.x · 被引用次数：315 · 研究领域：Salivary Gland Disorders and Functions、Oral Health Pathology and Treatment、Oral microbiology and periodontitis research

The aim of the study was to evaluate the prevalence of subjective perception of dry mouth in an adult population and to determine the prevalence of pharmacotherapy in this population. An additional aim was to assess a possible co-morbidity between symptoms of dry mouth and continuing pharmacotherapy. Four-thousand-two-hundred persons were selected at random from the national census register of the adult population of the southern part of the province of Halland, Sweden. The sample was stratified according to age and sex, and 300 men and an equal number of women aged 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70 and 80, were included. A newly developed questionnaire was mailed to each individual. In addition to questions about subjective perception of dry mouth, the subjects were asked to report on present diseases and continuing pharmacotherapy. Three-thousand-three-hundred and thirteen (80.5%) evaluable questionnaires were returned. The estimated prevalence of xerostomia in the population was 21.3% and 27.3% for men and women, respectively. This difference between the sexes was statistically significant. In non-medicated subjects, women tended to report a higher prevalence of xerostomia compared with men, 18.8% vs. 14.6%, and also among medicated subjects the estimated prevalence of dry mouth was higher for women than for men, 32.5% vs. 28.4%. There was a strong association between xerostomia and increasing age and also between xerostomia and continuing pharmacotherapy. The average prevalence of d...