[RETRACTED ARTICLE] Association between periodontal disease and subclinical atherosclerosis: the ELSA-Brasil study

[ARTIGO RETRATADO] Associação entre doença periodontal e aterosclerose subclínica: estudo ELSA-Brasil

[RETRACTED ARTICLE] Association between periodontal disease and subclinical atherosclerosis: the ELSA-Brasil study

[ARTIGO RETRATADO] Associação entre doença periodontal e aterosclerose subclínica: estudo ELSA-Brasil

Rafaela das Mercês Batista^I; Elizabeth Pimentel Rosetti^I; Eliana Zandonade^II; Leonard Hermann Roelke^I; Mario Vianna Vettore^III; Adauto Emmerich Oliveira^I

^ICentro de Ciências da Saúde, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Vitória, Brasil

^IICentro Universitário de Vila Velha, Vila Velha, Brasil

^IIIInstituto de Estudos em Saúde Coletiva, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil

To the Editor: We wish to retract our article Association Between Periodontal Disease and Subclinical Atherosclerosis: The ELSA-Brasil Study, published in CSP in May 2012. Contrary to the article's title and methodology as described, the data did not come from the ELSA-Brasil study [Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Adult Health], but were collected independently and with different objectives. Thus, the article is not a supplementary study to the ELSA-Brasil study and should not be referred to as such. The point in common between this study and ELSA-Brasil is that the study population in both consists of employees from a public university in the State of Espírito Santo, Brazil. However the points and methodology for measuring the intima-media thickness (IMT) were different from those adopted by ELSA-Brasil. The authors apologize to the Executive Board of the ELSA-Brasil study and to the Editor and readers of Cadernos de Saúde Pública for this error.

R. M. Batista, E. P. Rosetti, E. Zandonade, L. H. Roelke, M. V. Vettore, and A. O. Emmerich

Publication Dates

• Publication in this collection
  30 July 2012
• Date of issue
  May 2012