The Longitudinal Associations of Denture Use and Subjective Chewing Difficulty with Depressive Symptoms Among Middle-Aged and Older Adults: A Sex-Stratified Analysis of the Korean Longitudinal Study of Aging (2006-2022).
Researchers tracked middle-aged and older Korean adults over 16 years and found that subjective chewing difficulty was consistently linked to higher depressive symptoms in both men and women, while denture use showed this association only among women.
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