Table 3.

Correlations between salivary lactoperoxidase and histatin-5 of the study groups and ECC severity.

Salivary LPO correlations
Study groups	Mild ECC		Moderate ECC		Severe ECC
	r	P value	r	P value	r	P value
Underweight	−0.70	0.003**	−0.87	0.000**	−0.77	0.001**
Normal-weight	−0.82	0.000**	−0.35	0.196	−0.79	0.000**
Salivary histatin-5 correlations
Study groups	Mild ECC		Moderate ECC		Severe ECC
	r	P value	r	P value	r	P value
Underweight	− 0.94	0.000**	− 0.95	0.000**	− 0.96	0.000**
Normal-weight	− 0.87	0.000**	− 0.68	0.005**	− 0.95	0.000**

^**Highly significant.