Prevalence and factors related to dental caries among pre-school children of Saddar town, Karachi, Pakistan: a cross-sectional study

Table 5 Conditional univariate logistic regression with random effects logistic regression analysis of dietary factors related to dental caries

Variables	Conditional univariate logistic regression			Random effects logistic regression (Bootstrap)
Variables	p-value	Risk ratio	95% Confidence interval	p-value	95% Confidence interval
Consume Non-sweetened Milk
Yes	Ref	-	-	-	-
No	0.034	1.249	1.018-1.534	0.003	0.068-0.393
Consumed Sweetened Flavored Milk
Yes	Ref	-	-	-	-
No	0.073	0.838	0.691-1.017	0.014	(−0.330)-(−0.032)
Consume Sweet Juice & Syrup
Yes	Ref	-	-	-	-
No	0.884	0.984	0.792-1.222	0.839	(−0.193)-0.142
Use Confectionaries
Yes	Ref	-	-	-	-
No	0.274	0.880	0.699-1.107	0.125	(−0.310)-0.030

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