Alveolar bone loss and tooth loss contribute to increase in cancer mortality among older patients

BMC Oral Health

Table 3 HR and 95% confidence interval of competing risk hazard models^a

		Fine-Gray test	P value^b	Adjusted HR (95% CI) ^c	P value^d
Total cancer	Alveolar bone loss	14.07	0.003	1.28(1.05,1.55)	0.015
Total cancer	Loss of teeth	36.82	0.123	1.03(1.00,1.06)	0.021
LOP cancer	Alveolar bone loss	5.07	0.166	1.45(1.05,2.01)	0.025
LOP cancer	Loss of teeth	24.11	0.676	1.02(0.97,1.07)	0.380
Digestive cancer	Alveolar bone loss	8.66	0.034	1.25(0.89,1.77)	0.200
Digestive cancer	Loss of teeth	39.96	0.067	1.03(0.99,1.07)	0.170
Respiratory cancer	Alveolar bone loss	6.35	0.096	1.33(0.75,2.34)	0.330
Respiratory cancer	Loss of teeth	30.97	0.318	1.04(0.96,1.11)	0.340

^aAdjusting for age, sex, education levels, BMI, smoking, drinking, hypertension, and diabetes
^b P for Fine-Gray test ^c Severity of alveolar bone loss was treated as continuous variable ^d P for multivariate model

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