Table 3.
Adjusted hazard ratios and 95% confidence intervals for the associations between chewing abilities and all-cause mortality in the denture wearing group from the Korean Longitudinal Study of Aging 2006–2018.
| Model 1 | Model 2 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| aHR | 95% CI | p value | aHR | 95% CI | p value | |
| REG (n = 3921) | ||||||
| Chewing abilities with denture | ||||||
| Good | 1.000 | 1.000 | ||||
| Usually | 1.201 | 0.85–1.69 | 0.295 | 1.278 | 0.88–1.86 | 0.199 |
| Bad | 1.536 | 1.08–2.19 | 0.017 | 1.623 | 1.12–2.36 | 0.011 |
| Chewing abilities without denture | ||||||
| Good | 1.000 | |||||
| Usually | 0.724 | 0.38–1.38 | 0.325 | |||
| Bad | 0.747 | 0.43–1.30 | 0.299 | |||
| Non-REG (n = 6290) | ||||||
| Chewing abilities with denture | ||||||
| Good | 1.000 | 1.000 | ||||
| Usually | 1.015 | 0.81–1.27 | 0.896 | 1.027 | 0.81–1.31 | 0.826 |
| Bad | 0.988 | 0.79–1.23 | 0.912 | 1.019 | 0.81–1.28 | 0.871 |
| Chewing abilities without denture | ||||||
| Good | 1.000 | |||||
| Usually | 0.853 | 0.55–1.33 | 0.485 | |||
| Bad | 0.803 | 0.54–1.19 | 0.274 | |||
aHR Adjusted hazard ratio, CI Confidence interval, p value using Cox model, REG Regular exercise group. All models were adjusted for age, education, sex, marital status, working restriction, health insurances, alcohol consumption, number of chronic diseases, and self-rated health.