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Table 4 Correlations between salivary parameters and oral health condition in JIA and control group (C)

From: Unstimulated salivary flow, pH, proteins and oral health in patients with Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis

Salivary parameters		JIA				C
Salivary parameters		DMFT	dmft	GI	OHI-S	DMFT	dmft	GI	OHI-S
SF [ml/min]	r	0.19	0.16	0.26	0.01	0.33	0.16	0.18	0.04
SF [ml/min]	p	0.269	0.557	0.132	0.960	0.060	0.558	0.302	0.810
pH	r	0.07	0.05	0.09	0.06	0.12	0.40	0.10	0.35
pH	p	0.693	0.863	0.592	0.739	0.498	0.136	0.572	0.042 *
OPO activity [IU/l]	r	−0.02	0.04	-0.41	0.08	−0.18	0.26	−0.28	0.11
OPO activity [IU/l]	p	0.917	0.888	0.017 *	0.659	0.297	0.355	0.103	0.542
Lf [mg/l]	r	0.07	0.06	−0.01	0.09	−0.15	0.03	−0.18	−0.26
Lf [mg/l]	p	0.678	0.824	0.937	0.628	0.404	0.923	0.296	0.142
Lz [mg/l]	r	−0.10	-0.51	−0.11	−0.11	−0.25	−0.08	0.09	0.24
Lz [mg/l]	p	0.565	0.053 **	0.514	0.540	0.157	0.788	0.604	0.172
SP [g/l]	r	−0.03	−0.22	0.15	0.17	0.01	0.04	−0.15	−0.10
SP [g/l]	p	0.883	0.427	0.403	0.345	0.952	0.883	0.401	0.561

Using Spearman’s rank correlation; *statistically significant, p < 0.05; **at the limit of statistical significance, p = 0.05

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