Table 3.

Aortic atherosclerotic burden as a function of various combinations of CAP lesions and endodontic treatment

Apical radiolucencies	Root canal treatments	Apical radiolucencies w/o root canal treatment	Number of patients	Number of patients with atherosclerosis	Patients with atherosclerosis (%)	Atherosclerotic burden	SD
0	0	0	112	36	32.1	0.2147	0.5688
0	1 or more	0	30	11	36.6	0.0163	1.0457
1	0	1	45	22	48.9	0.5130	1.2070
1	1	0 or 1	27	7	25.9	0.0388	0.1336
1	2 or more	0 or 1	30	10	33.3	0.0402	0.1379
2	0	2	26	21	80.8	0.5752	1.4017
2	1 or 2	0, 1, or 2	35	16	45.7	0.0687	0.1930
2	3 or more	0, 1, or 2	22	8	36.4	0.0542	0.1441
3	0	3	18	16	88.9	0.5603	0.6926
3	1 or 2	1, 2, or 3	25	14	56	0.0655	0.1857
3	3	0, 1, or 2	14	7	50	0.0404	0.0779
3	4 or more	0, 1, or 2	15	8	53.3	0.0335	0.0789
4	0	4	14	13	92.9	0.9623	1.6128
4	1–4	0–4	21	15	71.4	0.1248	0.2138
4	5 or more	0–1	5	2	40	0.6872	1.5276
5	0	5	12	9	75	1.0164	2.4437
5	1–5	2–5	16	9	56.3	0.1174	0.2511
5	6 or more	0–2	6	4	66.7	0.639	1.0816
6	0	6	4	4	100	0.7657	1.1968
6	1–6	0–6	13	11	84.6	0.8148	1.3309
6	7 or more	1–2	3	0	0	0	0
7	0	7	7	6	85.7	0.4957	0.7113
7	1–7	3–7	11	9	81.8	0.6205	1.3143
≥8	0–13	1–13	20	17	85	0.2786	0.5540