Periodontal Infection and Cardiorespiratory Fitness in Younger Adults: Results from Continuous National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 1999–2004

• Ashley Thai ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ashley Thai, Ryan T. Demmer

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

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• Panos N. Papapanou,

  Affiliation Division of Periodontics, Section of Oral and Diagnostic Sciences, College of Dental Medicine, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

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• David R. Jacobs Jr,

  Affiliations Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America, Department of Nutrition, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

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• Moïse Desvarieux,

  Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America, Centre de recherche Epidémiologies et Biostatistique, INSERM U1153, Equipe: Méthodes en évaluation thérapeutique des maladies chroniques, Paris, France

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• Ryan T. Demmer

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ashley Thai, Ryan T. Demmer

  * E-mail: rtd2106@columbia.edu

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

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