Table 5.
Associations between pathogens analyzed.
| P. gingivalis | T. forsythia | T. denticola | A. actinomycetemcomitans | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OR‡ (95% CI§) | p-value(†) | OR‡ (95% CI§) | p-value(†) | OR‡ (95% CI§) | p-value(†) | OR‡ (95% CI§) | p-value(†) | |
| • P. gingivalis | – | – | 8.33 (3.57–19.43) | < 0.001* | 2.13 (0.97–4.67) | 0.056 | 2.95 (1.26–6.91) | 0.011* |
| • T. forsythia | – | – | 2.54 (1.15–5.59) | 0.019* | 2.31 (1.01–5.30) | 0.045* | ||
| • T. denticola | – | – | 1.84 (0.79–4.25) | 0.154 | ||||
| • A. actinomycetemcomitans | – | – | ||||||
(*)
significant difference at 5.0%
(†)
chi-square test
(‡)
OR – odds ratio
(§)
CI – confidence interval