Atotal of 161 inpatients, 90 males and 71 females, aged 12-80 years, were seen at the Department of Periodontology upon referral from Iwate Medical University Hospital and the following information was obtained from each patient’s medical conditions based on the interview with inpatients and the data from physicians at first visit: (1) age, (2) sex, (3) medical problems. The medical problems were divided into following categories; cardiovascular, respiratory, neuropsychiatric, digestive, genitourinary, metabolic disease, muscle, joint, and bone, endocrine,hematologic, dermatologic and eye, ear, nose, and throat problems. The age was also divided into four groups: 10-20, 21-40, 41-60 and 61-80. The number of cardiovascular disorder was reported by 51,lin the age group of 21-40,28 in the age group of 41-60 and 22 in the age group of 61-80. Neuropsychiatric disorder was next in reported frequency (31), followed by digestive and metabolic disorders (29 respectively). Other disorders were reported by less than 20 for each condition. Four diseases above mentioned were reported in 63.1% of all medical problems. Hypertension was reported in 27.5% (14 of 51) in cardiovascular disorder, and hepatitis was in 31.0% (9 of 29) in digestive disorder. Diabetes mellitus was represented in 68.9% (20 of 29) in metabolic disorder, and cerebral infarction was 22.6% (7 of 31) and schizophrenia was 32.3% (10 of 31) in neuropsychiatric disorder.
The malority of the types of systemic conditions were in 41-60 age group with the highest incidence of all age groups. The highest incidence of inpatients with single and two medical problems among in patients was in 41-60 age group (59.5% and 58.8%), but the incidence of inpatients with three and over medical problems among inpatients was the same in both 41-60 age group and 61-80age group (43.8% respectively).
In this study, the information obtained from medical conditions for inpatients based on the interview with inpatients and on the data from physicians seems to be valid for every specific condition rather than that information obtained from a ”patient-provided” history.
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