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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Dec 14.
Published in final edited form as: J Periodontol. 2019 Nov 14;91(5):582–595. doi: 10.1002/JPER.19-0055

Table 3.

Periodontal disease as predictor of white blood cell markers overall and by sex – 2009–2014 National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (n=11,813)

Unadjusted* Gender & Age-Adjusted Fully-Adjusted
β (95% CI) β (95% CI) β (95% CI)
Overall:
WBC count: .277 (.162, .393) .353 (.236, .471) .199 (.088, .310)
% Lymphocytes: −.774 (−1.234, −.314) −.340 (−.773, .092) −.606 (−1.023, −.188)
% Monocytes: .0836 (−.078, .245) −.120 (−.273, .033) −.0174 (−.162, .128)
% Neutrophils: .628 (.103, 1.154) .487 (−.0088, .985) .659 (.180, 1.138)
% Eosinophils: .063 (−.044, .170) −.0225 (−.130, .0849) −.0247 (−.134, .0848)
% Basophils: −.0011 (−.029, .026) −.00385 (−.0326, .0249) −.0105 (−.0406, .0197)
Males:
WBC count: .463 (.301, .627) .482 (.315, .651) .295 (.144, .447)
% Lymphocytes: −1.089 (−1.687, −.491) −.588 (−1.161, −.0157) −.840 (−1.408, −.272)
% Monocytes: −.0171 (−.256, .222) −.0877 (−.320, .145) .0340 (−.1901, .259)
% Neutrophils: 1.148 (.368, 1.928) .755 (.0191, 1.492) .927 (.207, 1.646)
% Eosinophils: −.031 (−.188, .125) .0627 (−.214, .0881) −.0899 (−.243, .0632)
% Basophils: −.0109 (−.047, .0255) −.0158 (−.0538, .0222) −.0291 (−.0677, .00944)
Females:
WBC count: .120 (−.0186, .259) .231 (.0941, .368) .105 (−.0427, .253)
% Lymphocytes: −.187 (−.804, .429) −.1218 (−.713, .469) −.378 (−.935, .178)
% Monocytes: −.00869 (−.177, .160) −.157 (−.316, .00282) −.0761 (−.234, .0818)
% Neutrophils: .125 (−.530, .781) .256 (−.374, .885) .422 (−.178, 1.023)
% Eosinophils: .0616 (−.0868, .210) .0181 (−.129, .166) .0311 (−.112, .175)
% Basophils: .0102 (−.0217, .0421) .00528 (−.0286, .0392) .00134 (−.0354, .0380)
*

Statistically significant (P<0.05) gender-by-periodontitis interaction effects for WBC count, %lymphocytes and %neutrophils

Statistically significant (P<0.05) gender-by-periodontitis interaction effects for WBC count, %lymphocytes and %neutrophils

Statistically significant (P<0.05) gender-by-periodontitis interaction effects for WBC count, %lymphocytes and %neutrophils.