Table 3 Caries prevalence of the study subjects and subgroups
Variables | Underweight | Normal | Overweight | Obesity | Total | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Caries (n = 5211) | Caries free (n = 2737) | Caries (n = 49,858) | Caries free (n = 34,973) | Caries (n = 4613) | Caries free (n = 4691) | Caries (n = 1427) | Caries free (n = 1671) | Caries (n = 61,109) | Caries free (n = 44,072) | |
Gender | ||||||||||
 Male | 2709 (62.28) | 1641 (37.72) | 24,812 (55.92) | 19,559 (44.08) | 2319 (44.20) | 2928 (55.80) | 639 (41.71) | 893 (58.29) | 30,479 (54.92) | 25,021 (45.08) |
 Female | 2502 (69.54) | 1096 (30.46) | 25,046 (61.90) | 15,414 (38.10) | 2294 (56.54) | 1763 (43.46) | 788 (50.32) | 778 (49.68) | 30,630 (61.65) | 19,051 (38.35) |
Educational stage | ||||||||||
 Primary school | 3566 (76.16) | 1116 (23.84) | 29,074 (72.58) | 10,982 (27.42) | 2298 (62.62) | 1372 (37.38) | 633 (57.60) | 466 (42.40) | 35,571 (71.85) | 13,936 (28.15) |
 Junior high school | 991 (51.00) | 952 (49.00) | 13,177 (47.77) | 14,409 (52.23) | 1472 (41.90) | 2041 (58.10) | 513 (40.20) | 763 (59.80) | 16,153 (47.07) | 18,165 (52.93) |
 Senior high school | 654 (49.43) | 669 (50.57) | 7607 (44.26) | 9582 (55.74) | 843 (39.75) | 1278 (60.25) | 281 (38.87) | 442 (61.13) | 9385 (43.95) | 11,971 (56.05) |
School type | ||||||||||
 Public school | 3110 (63.69) | 1773 (36.31) | 30,325 (56.28) | 23,559 (43.72) | 3047 (48.17) | 3278 (51.83) | 939 (44.42) | 1175 (55.58) | 37,421 (55.68) | 29,785 (44.32) |
 Private school | 2101 (68.55) | 964 (31.45) | 19,533 (63.12) | 11,414 (36.88) | 1566 (52.57) | 1413 (47.43) | 488 (49.59) | 496 (50.41) | 23,688 (62.38) | 14,287 (37.62) |
Area | ||||||||||
 Urban | 1696 (55.03) | 1386 (44.97) | 20,555 (50.10) | 20,474 (49.90) | 2274 (44.10) | 2883 (55.90) | 737 (41.38) | 1044 (58.62) | 25,262 (49.49) | 25,787 (50.51) |
 Suburb | 3018 (70.35) | 1272 (29.65) | 25,371 (64.90) | 13,719 (35.10) | 2114 (55.11) | 1722 (44.89) | 638 (51.41) | 603 (48.59) | 31,141 (64.27) | 17,316 (35.73) |
 Remote town | 497 (86.28) | 79 (13.72) | 3932 (83.45) | 780 (16.55) | 225 (72.35) | 86 (27.65) | 52 (68.42) | 24 (31.58) | 4706 (82.93) | 969 (17.07) |