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Table 2 Comparisons of health conditions and microbial amounts between participants with and without poor oral health condition

From: Associations of streptococci and fungi amounts in the oral cavity with nutritional and oral health status in institutionalized elders: a cross sectional study

 

With poor oral health (OHAT ≥ 5, n = 26)

Without poor oral health (OHAT < 5, n = 15)

Totald

p value in comparison test

OHAT score (median, range)

6, 5–13

2, 1–4

5, 1–13

 < 0.001c

Males/females, %

4/22, 15.4

4/11, 26.7

8/33, 19.5

0.434b

Age in years (average ± SD)

85.9 ± 8.49

82.3 ± 7.62

84.6 ± 8.28

0.181a

BMI

21.2 ± 4.65

21.5 ± 3.04

21.3 ± 4.10

0.812a

Care needs score (median, range)

6, 2–7

1, 1–6

5, 1–7

 < 0.001c

Eating independence (not independent/independent, %)

13/13, 50.0

0/15, 0.0

13/28, 46.4

0.001b

Mucus score (median, range)

24.1, 0.2–29.9

26.5, 18.8–29.9

25.3, 0.2–29.9

0.181c

TCI socre (median, range)

2, 1–13

2, 1–9

2.0, 1–13

0.825c

Number of present teeth (median, range)

7, 0–26

2, 0–23

6, 0–26

0.583c

Number of decayed teeth (median, range)

0, 0–9

0, 0–1

0, 0–9

0.030c

Number of filled teeth (median, range)

4.5, 0–19

2, 0–21

3, 0–21

0.947c

Edentulous subjects (edentulous/dentate, %)

5/21, 23.8

6/9, 40.0

11/30, 73.2

0.272b

Denture wearer (wearers/non-wearers, %)

12/14, 46.2

11/4, 73.3

23/18, 56.1

0.114b

  1. at test
  2. bFisher’s exact test
  3. cMann–Whitney U test
  4. dSame data as shown in Table 1 excluding OHAT