Table 1.
Distribution of socio-demographic factors overall and according to oral health status
| Children with a Blood sample (n=2,958) | Children with a Urine sample (n=1,148) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall weighted% (S.E.) | MeanDMFS (S.E.) | % with poor self-rated OH* | Overall weighted % (S.E.) | Mean DMFS (S.E.) | % with poor self-rated OH | ||
| Age (mean, SE) | 13 (0.2) | 3.3 (0.2) | 11 (0.8) | 13 (0.2) | 3.6 (0.3) | 11 (1.2) | |
| Gender | |||||||
| Male | 51 (1.51) | 3.5 (0.2) | 13 (1.1) | 51 (1.9) | 3.8 (0.4) | 12 (2.0) | |
| Female | 49 (1.51) | 3.1 (0.2) | 9 (0.89) | 49 (1.9) | 3.3 (0.3) | 10 (1.2) | |
| Race/ethnicity | |||||||
| NH White | 49 (3.3) | 3.0 (0.2) | 9 (0.9) | 50 (3.2) | 3.3 (0.4) | 8 (1.5) | |
| NH Black | 13 (2.0) | 2.9 (0.3) | 11 (1.3) | 13 (2.1) | 3.1 (0.6) | 12 (2.5) | |
| Hispanic | 26 (2.6) | 4.1 (0.3) | 19 (2.2) | 25 (3.1) | 3.9 (0.5) | 17 (4.0) | |
| Other** | 12 (1.2) | 3.4 (0.3) | 6 (1.4) | 12 (1.5) | 4.6 (0.9) | 8 (2.7) | |
Blood metals were done on everyone and urine metals on a third of the sample.
*
OH-oral health.
**
other race including multi-racial.