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. 2018 Aug 30;25(4):100–111. doi: 10.21315/mjms2018.25.4.10

Table 3.

Change in salivary pH after consumption of beverages compared to baseline pH

Time interval Mineral water ( B1) Chocolate drink (B2) Sirap bandung (B3)



pH valuesa Mean diff. (95% CI) t-statistic (df) P-valueb pH valuesa Mean diff. (95% CI) t-statistic (df) P-valueb pH valuesa Mean diff. (95% CI) t-statistic (df) P- valueb
Baseline 7.07 (0.16) 7.09 (0.26) 7.13 (0.15)
5 min 7.11 (0.16) −0.04 (−0.11, 0.04) 0.95 (15) 0.353 6.69 (0.40) 0.4 (0.2, 0.5) 4.9 (15) < 0.001 6.94 (0.16) 0.2 (0.1, 0.2) 7.2 (16) < 0.001
10 min 7.10 (0.18) −0.03 (−0.1, 0.04) 0.8 (15) 0.388 6.73 (0.27) 0.4 (0.2, 0.5) 6.4 (15) < 0.001 6.86 (0.18) 0.3 (0.2, 0.4) 6.9 (16) < 0.001
15 min 7.14 (0.21) −0.07 (−0.15, 0.02) 1.7 (15) 0.108 6.80 (0.21) 0.3 (0.2, 0.4) 4.9 (15) < 0.001 6.88 (0.18) 0.2 (0.2, 0.3) 5.6 (16) < 0.001
20 min 7.13 (0.18) −0.06 (−0.2, 0.02) 1.5 (15) 0.163 6.91 (0.24) 0.2 (0.1, 0.3) 3.2 (15) 0.005 6.98 (0.21) 0.1 (0.1, 0.2) 3.6 (16) 0.003
30 min 7.08 (0.16) −0.01 (−0.1, 0.1) 0.2 (15) 0.845 7.01 (0.21) 0.1 ( 0.01, 0.1) 1.9 (15) 0.074 7.07 (0.19) 0.1 (−0.03, 0.2) 1.4 (16) 0.172
a

mean (SD)

b

Paired t-test