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Table 4 Relationship between the participants' quantitative characteristics and their oral heath indices (N = 222)

From: Oral health status of patients infected with human immunodeficiency virus and related factors, Iran: a cross-sectional study

Participants' characteristics

DMFT Index

Plaque Index

Community Periodontal Index

r

p-value

r

p-value

r

p-value

Age

0.389

 < 0.001

0.083

0.326

 − 0.008

0.926

Duration of disease

0.231

0.001

0.069

0.415

0.149

0.075

Number of children

0.004

0.957

 − 0.178

0.034

 − 0.151

0.072

  1. DMFT decayed, missing, and filled teeth
  2. r Pearson Correlation