Table 2.

Factors associated with the probability of malnutrition or risk of malnutrition defined by a MNA score < 24, PAQUID oral sub-study (n = 87), France, 2014

	Univariate analysis			Multivariate analysis
Variables	OR	95% CI	p-value	OR	95% CI	p-value
Age (years), mean (sd)	1.06	[0.90 – 1.23]	0.485	1.10	[0.90—1.34]	0.150
Females (vs. Males)	4.77	[1.23 – 31.65]	0.047	4.55	[0.75 – 48.43]	0.326
Higher school level (vs. No)	0.88	[0.26 – 3.50]	0.843
Living alone (vs. No),	0.86	[0.33 – 2.24]	0.759
Institutionalized (vs. living at home)	3.97	[1.42 – 11.36]	0.009	1.38	[0.28 – 6.51]	0.535
Dementia (vs. No)	1.18	[0.40 – 3.31]	0.752
Number of medications per day, mean (sd)	1.23	[1.05 – 1.48]	0.015	1.07	[0.86 – 1.35]	0.142
Psychotropic intake (vs. No)	1.53	[0.58 – 4.03]	0.388
Presence of comorbiditiesa (vs. No)	0.89	[0.32 – 2.65]	0.834
Hierarchical disability scale			0.020			0.186
No or mild dependency	1.00	-		1.00	-
Moderate dependency	2.81	[0.62 – 20.05]		3.77	[0.57 – 37.41]
Severe dependency	6.86	[1.60 – 47.94]		6.83	[0.87 – 74.81]
DMFT index > 19 (vs. ≤ 19), n (%)	0.58	[0.15 – 2.21]	0.428
Posterior occluding pairs, mean (sd)	0.69	[0.49 – 0.99]	0.041	0.66	[0.37 – 0.98]	0.089
Oral pain (vs. No), n (%)	0.54	[0.06 – 4.81]	0.579
Xerostomia (vs. No), n (%)	6.67	[2.26 – 19.63]	0.0006	8.79	[2.38 – 39.10]	0.002
Prosthetic rehabilitation, n (%)			0.618
No tooth loss or adequate dentures	1.00	-
Inadequate dentures	1.94	[0.21 – 18.07]
No dentures despite tooth loss	2.67	[0.29 – 24.64]

DMFT Decayed-Missing-Filled Teeth index. Sd Standard deviation. MNA Mini Nutritional Assessment. OR Odds Ratio. CI Confidence Interval

^a Presence of diabetes, Parkinson's disease, history of myocardial infarction or stroke