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Table 2 Medline search strategy

From: Influence of obesity on the outcome of non-surgical periodontal therapy - a systematic review

Step

Query

Hits

1

Exp Periodontitis/AND (adult OR chronic*).ti,ab.

5703

2

Chronic periodontitis/OR periodontal pocket/

7004

3

2 OR 3

10454

4

((adult OR chronic*) adj3 periodontiti*).ti,ab.

5352

5

(attachment adj3 loss).ti,ab. AND ((clinical OR periodontal) adj3 attachment).ti,ab.

1305

6

(periodontal adj3 pocket).ti,ab.

1066

7

OR/3-7

12910

8

Dental scaling/ OR “root planing”/

3479

9

((subgingival OR root OR supragingival) adj3 (scaling* OR planing*)).ti,ab.

2288

10

(deep adj3 (scaling* OR cleaning)).ti,ab.

62

11

((conventional OR inital OR “non surgical” OR non-surgical OR nonsurgical) adj3 (treatment OR therapy)).ti,ab.

33417

12

OR/8-11

37131

13

7 AND 12

2184

14

Exp Obesity/

154540

15

Exp Body Weight/

369850

16

(overweight OR obese OR obesity OR adiposit* OR BMI OR “body mass index”).ti,ab.

300847

17

(cardiolipin OR lipid* OR leptin).ti,ab.

395517

18

“waist to hip”.ti,ab.

9048

19

(body adj3 weight).ti,ab.

163760

20

OR/14-19

954233

21

13 AND 20

42

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