Table 2 Age, meals per day taken, gender, education, dental visit behaviour and caries experience according to risk to dental erosion of the respondents.
From: Dietary behavior and knowledge of dental erosion among Chinese adults
Risk to dental erosion | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
All | Yes* | No | p-value | |
Age (n = 514) | 37.1 ± 6.0 | 36.5 ± 6.3 | 37.9 ± 5.5 | 0.008 |
No. of meals/day (n = 494) | 5.4 ± 2.1 | 5.3 ± 2.0 | 5.5 ± 2.3 | 0.355 |
Gender (n = 520) | 0.441 | |||
Male | 36% | 104 (37%) | 82 (34%) | |
Female | 64% | 175 (63%) | 159 (66%) | |
Education level (n = 517) | < 0.001 | |||
Primary or below | 6% | 13 (5%) | 20 (9%) | |
Secondary | 64% | 163 (58%) | 167 (70%) | |
Tertiary | 30% | 103 (37%) | 51 (21%) | |
Dental visit (n = 499) | 0.212 | |||
At least 1/yr | 22% | 59 (22%) | 52 (23%) | |
Less than 1/yr | 67% | 176 (65%) | 157 (69%) | |
Never | 11% | 36 (13%) | 19 (8%) | |
Caries experience (n = 520) | 0.086 | |||
Yes | 79% | 212 (76%) | 198 (82%) | |
No | 21% | 67 (24%) | 43 (18%) | |