Identifying High-Priority Profiles for Edentulism and Other Health Outcomes Through Population-Based Clustering.

Researchers used clustering analysis on survey data to identify population groups with similar health and socioeconomic characteristics, finding that three high-risk clusters—representing only 8.4% of participants—accounted for disproportionately high rates of complete tooth loss, death, and chronic diseases over four years.

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