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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Arch Oral Biol. 2007 Nov 5;53(3):231–237. doi: 10.1016/j.archoralbio.2007.09.007

Table 2.

Descriptive statistics of anthropometric measurements among Haitian children ages 11 through 19 years old in 2005

Stunting and Wasting
Normal Stunted Wasted Stunted and wasted Total
N 408 422 51 136 1017
Age (years) (s.d.) 14.10 (1.93) 13.57 (1.48) 13.80 (1.79) 14.22 (1.63) 13.88 (1.73)
Saliva*
 Saliva (ml) stimulated (mean) (s.d.) 1.04 (0.62) 0.94 (0.61) 1.09 (0.53) 0.92 (0.58) 0.99 (0.61)
 Saliva (ml) unstimulated (mean) (s.d.) 0.40 (0.21) 0.35 (0.19) 0.39 (0.17) 0.35 (0.19) 0.37 (0.19)
Gender (n,%)
 Female 229 (48.9%) 174 (37.2%) 24 (5.1%) 41 (8.8%) 468 (100%)
 Male 179 (32.6%) 248 (45.2%) 27 (5.2%) 95 (17.3%) 549 (100%)
DMFS Score (s.d.) for Permanent Teeth 2.63 (5.37) 1.23 (3.79) 1.84 (4.25) 1.56 (3.09) 1.87 (4.48)
dmfs Score for Primary Teeth 0.18 (1.02) 0.11 (0.64) 0.14 (0.75) 0.33 (1.53) 0.17 (0.96)
*

pH stimulated & pH unstimulated saliva: All categorized as high (pH>5.6), except for 3 subjects with medium pH scores (4.6–5.5)