Table 4.

Correlations between salivary lactoperoxidase and histatin-5 of the study groups and BMI values.

Salivary LPO correlations
Study groups	Mild ECC		Moderate ECC		Sever ECC
	r	P value	r	P value	r	P value
Underweight	0.69	0.003**	0.86	0.000**	0.74	0.001**
Normal-weight	0.90	0.000**	0.75	0.000**	0.83	0.000**
Salivary histatin-5 correlations
Study groups	Mild ECC		Moderate ECC		Sever ECC
	r	P value	r	P value	r	P value
Underweight	0.88	0.000**	0.89	0.000**	0.95	0.000**
Normal-weight	0.92	0.000**	0.73	0.005**	0.84	0.000**

^**Highly significant.