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Table 4 Association between states of tongue and saliva divided by number of residual teeth determined using logistic regression

From: Relationship between the state of tongue hygiene and the number of residual teeth in convalescent-ward inpatients, cross- sectional study

tooth number

saliva

Crude OR

(95% CI)

p value

Adjusted a OR

(95% CI)

p value

total

0

1.00 (ref.)

< 0.001

1.00 (ref.)

< 0.001

 

>  1

7.18 (2.75–18.77)

10.49 (2.86–38.51)

<  19

0

1.00 (ref.)

0.092

1.00 (ref.)

0.068

 

>  1

3.75 (0.81–17.48)

6.26 (0.87–44.91)

>  20

0

1.00 (ref.)

0.002

1.00 (ref.)

0.006

 

>  1

7.70 (2.09–28.34)

22.27 (2.42–205.28)

  1. OR odds ratio, CI confidence interval
  2. aadjusted with age, sex, receiving odontotherapy, primary cause for hospitalization, receiving medicines with oral side-effect, hospital
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