Table 5.
Association of the high-risk periodontal index for risk of infectiousness category with heart diseases, diabetes mellitus, and smoking, taking moderate risk category as a reference
| Parameter estimates | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total scorea=6≤ PIRI ≤10 | B | SE | Wald | df | Significant | OR | 95% CI for OR |
|
| Lower | Upper | |||||||
| Intercept | 1.306 | 0.276 | 22.395 | 1 | 0.000 | |||
| Hypertension | 1.650 | 0.349 | 22.288 | 1 | 0.000 | 5.206 | 2.625 | 10.328 |
| Diabetes mellitus | 1.102 | 0.268 | 16.901 | 1 | 0.000 | 3.012 | 1.780 | 5.094 |
| Smoking | 0.501 | 0.262 | 3.655 | 1 | 0.056 | 1.650 | 0.987 | 2.758 |
aThe reference category is: 1<PIRI ≤5; P<0.001 at 5% significance level. df – Degrees of freedom, P<0.05 – Statistically significant, SE – Standard error; OR – Odds ratio; CI – Confidence interval; PIRI – Periodontal index for risk of infectiousness; B – beta value (standardized regression coefficient)