Correlation between microbial host factors and caries among older adults

BMC Oral Health

Table 3 Shows bivariate correlation between DMFT and characteristics of study population (N = 141)

Study population characteristics	Coronal caries	Root caries
Study population characteristics	Bivariate analysis (p-value)	Bivariate analysis (p-value)
Age	0.40	0.12
Gender	0.52	0.10
Ethnicity	0.17	-0.12
Education	0.08	-0.13
Household income	0.36	-0.16
MS count	0.002^a	0.17
LB count	0.009^a	< 0.01^a
Saliva volume	0.15	0.96
Saliva buffering capacity	0.34	0.23

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