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Table 6 Subgroup analysis: Associations between the number of teeth and all-cause mortality

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
   ≥ 20  < 20   
Variable (number of cases/number of samples) HR HR (95% CI) p value
Sex
 Men 153/960 1.0 1.775 (1.012–3.114) 0.045*
 Women 66/1248 1.0 1.382 (0.565–3.380) 0.479
Age
 < 65 years 48/1241 1.0 1.031 (0.411–2.583) 0.948
 ≥ 65 years 170/959 1.0 3.126 (1.651–5.922)  < 0.001*
BMI
 ≤ 18.5 16/82 1.0 0.908 (0.155–5.314) 0.915
 18.5< , ≤ 25 136/1477 1.0 1.527 (0.859–2.711) 0.149
 25<  61/612 1.0 2.149 (0.800–5.771) 0.129
Smoking habit
 No 150/1577 1.0 2.412 (1.364–4.266) 0.002*
 Yes 48/366 1.0 0.673 (0.263–1.723) 0.409
Alcohol consumption
 < 20 g 143/1524 1.0 1.687 (0.976–2.916) 0.061
 ≥ 20 g 40/403 1.0 1.894 (0.719–4.992) 0.196
Educational status
 High 33/341 1.0 3.229 (0.922–11.302) 0.067
 Middle 106/1028 1.0 1.809 (0.967–3.385) 0.064
 Low 45/454 1.0 1.218 (0.487–3.043) 0.673
Hypertension
 Yes 82/687 1.0 2.686 (1.285–5.614) 0.009*
 No 66/849 1.0 1.049 (0.543–2.025) 0.887
Diabetes mellitus
 Yes 16/84 1.0 0.999 (0.244–4.088) 0.999
 No 132/1452 1.0 1.715 (1.035–2.841) 0.036*
Perceived mental stress
 Never 18/104 1.0 2.816 (0.373–21.271) 0.316
 Not very often 61/556 1.0 1.214 (0.502–2.937) 0.667
 Some of the time 113/1226 1.0 1.628 (0.826–3.21) 0.159
 Most of the time 24/305 1.0 3.109 (0.658–14.692) 0.152
  1. Adjusted for age, sex, BMI, smoking habit, alcohol consumption, educational status, hypertension, diabetes mellitus, and perceived mental stress
  2. HR hazard ratio, CI confidence interval, BMI body mass index
  3. *statistically significant (p < 0.05)