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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Community Dent Oral Epidemiol. 2012 Oct 29;41(4):374–384. doi: 10.1111/cdoe.12015

Figure 3.

Figure 3

Least-squares adjusted cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk score, by both toothbrushing and flossing frequencies, among disease-free adults in the Survey of the Health of Wisconsin (N=712).

Within each cell, CVD risk scores with different superscripts are significantly different from one another (p<0.05).

Based on a fully adjusted model equation: CVD Score(predicted) = 0.246(intercept) + 0.025(<1/day) + 0.007(1/day) − 0.012(daily) + 0.008(most) + 0.008(rarely) + 0.006(never) − 0.192(age 30–38) − 0.158(age 39–47) − 0.104(age 48–56) − 0.060(age 57–65) − 0.071(female) + 0.001(not married) + 0.003(Bachelors) + 0.001(Associates) + 0.002(dental coverage) − 0.020(dental check-up) + 0.062(current smoker) + 0.002(former smoker) + 0.000(fat) − 0.002(sedentary) + Error