Table 3.

Mean secretion rates (ml/min) and standard deviations (±) of resting whole saliva (RWS), chewing-stimulated whole saliva (CH-SWS) and acid-stimulated whole saliva (A-SWS), separately for men and women and for age group (<70; 70–80; >80)

Whole saliva type (cut-off value for hyposalivation)	men	women	all	<70	70-80	>80
	n = 20	n = 30	n = 50	n = 8	n = 25	n = 16
RWS (0.1)	0.4 ± 0.2	0.1 ± 0.1	0.2 ± 0.2	0.3 ± 0.2	0.2 ± 0.2	0.2 ± 0.2
CH-SWS (0.5)	0.8 ± 0.6	0.4 ± 0.5	0.5 ± 0.5	0.6 ± 0.7	0.5 ± 0.5	0.4 ± 0.3
A-SWS (0.5)	1.6 ± 1.0	0.9 ± 0.6	1.2 ± 0.9	1.3 ± 0.8	1.2 ± 1.0	1.1 ± 0.6