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Table 1 Participant characteristics

From: Association between presence of 20 or more natural teeth and all-cause, cancer-related, and cardiovascular disease-related mortality: Yamagata (Takahata) prospective observational study

  

Number of teeth

p value†

<20

≥20

Average

SD

Average

SD

 

Total

n = 793

n = 1407

 

Age (years)

2200

68.0

8.3

58.8

9.5

<0.001*

 

Total

n = 779

 

n = 1392

  

BMI (kg/m2)

2171

23.4

4.0

23.4

3.2

0.275

  

n = 670

n = 1257

 

Alcohol consumption (g/day)

1927

11.3

23.6

13.3

26.0

0.004

  

Number of teeth

p value‡

  

<20

≥20

Variable

 

n

%

n

%

Sex

Male

374

47.0

586

41.9

0.012*

Female

421

53.0

827

58.5

Total

795

 

1413

 

Educational status

High

121

18.7

220

18.7

1.000

Middle

364

56.3

664

56.4

Low

161

24.9

293

24.9

Total

646

 

1177

 

Hypertension

No

255

45.5

594

60.9

<0.001*

Yes

306

54.5

381

39.1

Total

561

 

975

 

Diabetes mellitus

No

518

92.3

934

95.8

0.005*

Yes

43

7.7

41

4.2

Total

561

 

975

 

Current smoker

No

555

81.9

1022

80.8

0.584

Yes

123

18.1

243

19.2

Total

678

 

1265

 

Perceived mental stress

Never

42

5.3

62

4.4

<0.001*

Not very often

244

31.0

312

22.2

Sometimes

409

52.0

817

58.1

Most of the time

91

11.6

214

15.2

Total

786

 

1405

 
  1. SD, standard deviation; BMI, body mass index
  2. †p value by Mann–Whitney U-test
  3. ‡p value by chi-squared test