Table 1.
Basic information according to xerostomia group (n=1,076)
| Variables | Total | Xerostomia-free (n=957) |
Xerostomia (n=119) | P | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | % | n | % | n | % | ||
| Age (M±SD)† | 74.0±6.4 | 73.7±6.3 | 76.5±6.6 | <.001 | |||
| Sex | 0.03 | ||||||
| Men | 308 | 28.6 | 284 | 29.7 | 24 | 20.2 | |
| Women | 768 | 71.4 | 673 | 70.3 | 95 | 79.8 | |
| Education level | <.001 | ||||||
| Illiterate/ Elementary school | 495 | 46.0 | 422 | 44.1 | 73 | 61.3 | |
| Junior high/ High school | 366 | 34.0 | 333 | 34.8 | 33 | 27.7 | |
| Above technical school/ College | 215 | 20.0 | 202 | 21.1 | 13 | 10.9 | |
| BMI (M±SD)† | 24.3±3.5 | 24.3±3.5 | 24.2±3.8 | 0.888 | |||
| Number of natural teeth | <.001 | ||||||
| < 20 teeth | 450 | 41.8 | 379 | 39.6 | 71 | 59.6 | |
| ≥ 20 teeth | 626 | 58.2 | 578 | 60.4 | 48 | 40.3 | |
| Number of functional teeth | <.001 | ||||||
| < 20 teeth | 399 | 37.1 | 334 | 34.9 | 65 | 54.6 | |
| ≥ 20 teeth | 677 | 62.9 | 623 | 65.1 | 54 | 45.4 | |
| Occlusal condition | <.001 | ||||||
| A | 445 | 41.4 | 416 | 43.5 | 29 | 24.4 | |
| B | 415 | 38.6 | 359 | 37.5 | 56 | 47.1 | |
| C | 216 | 20.1 | 182 | 19.0 | 34 | 28.6 | |
| Implant | 45 | 4.2 | 43 | 4.5 | 2 | 1.7 | 0.148 |
| Edentulous | 94 | 8.7 | 79 | 8.3 | 15 | 12.6 | 0.113 |
| Removable denture | |||||||
| CD | 202 | 18.8 | 171 | 17.9 | 31 | 26.1 | 0.031 |
| RPD | 319 | 29.7 | 269 | 28.1 | 50 | 42.0 | 0.002 |
| PI (0- 3) (M±SD)† | 0.9±0.5 | 0.9±0.5 | 1.0±0.7 | 0.569 | |||
| Tongue coating (0-12) (M±SD)† | 4.5±3.3 | 4.5±3.3 | 3.9±3.3 | 0.058 | |||
| Masticatory performance | <.001 | ||||||
| Good | 373 | 35.1 | 350 | 37.0 | 23 | 19.5 | |
| Moderate | 410 | 38.6 | 364 | 38.5 | 46 | 39.0 | |
| Poor | 280 | 26.3 | 231 | 24.4 | 49 | 41.5 | |
| Dysphagia | 136 | 12.6 | 97 | 10.1 | 39 | 32.8 | <.001 |
| Sarcopenia | 46 | 4.3 | 32 | 3.3 | 14 | 11.8 | <.001 |
| Frailty | <.001 | ||||||
| Robust | 857 | 79.7 | 788 | 82.3 | 69 | 58.0 | |
| Pre-frailty | 205 | 19.1 | 159 | 16.6 | 46 | 38.7 | |
| Frailty | 14 | 1.3 | 10 | 1.0 | 4 | 3.4 | |
| GOHAI (M±SD) (0-60) † | 53.0±6.8 | 53.7±6.3 | 47.9±8.8 | <.001 | |||
chi-square test; †two sample t test
BMI Body mass index, CD Complete denture, RPD Removable complete denture, PI Plaque index