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. 2022 Jun 21;9:837743. doi: 10.3389/fmed.2022.837743

Table 3.

Association between the number of missing teeth with all-cause mortality in subgroups of age, obesity, and SBP.

Characteristics No. of death/ No. of participants HRs in the 1–2 missing teeth group based
on no missing teeth group
HRs in the ≥3 missing teeth group based
on no missing teeth group
P-value of interaction
≥3 Missing teeth 1–2 Missing teeth No missing teeth IRD per 1,000
person-years
(95% CI)
Adjusted HRs
(95% CI)†
p-value IRD per 1,000
(95% CI)
person-
years
(95%
CI)
Adjusted HRs
(95% CI)
p-Value
Age < 55 417/8,334 330/8,334 292/8,334 0.38
(−0.10–0.86)
1.10
(0.93–1.28)
0.256 1.25
(0.74–1.77)
1.15
(0.99–1.34)
0.071 <0.001*
Age ≥ 55 1,870/8,877 1,406/8,877 1,589/8,877 −1.94
(−2.99– −0.89)
1.01
(0.94–1.09)
0.730 3.12
(1.98–4.27)
1.20
(1.12–1.28)
<0.001*
BMI < 23 1,272/6,980 747/6,025 955/6,658 −1.77
(−2.86–0.52)
0.98
(0.89–1.08)
0.688 3.72
(2.54–6.05)
1.24
(1.14–1.35)
<0.001* 0.033*
BMI ≥ 23 1,015/1,0231 989/1,1186 926/1,0553 0.06
(−0.60–1.34)
1.05
(0.96–1.15)
0.313 1.00
(0.31–2.42)
1.13
(1.03–1.24)
0.007*
SBP < 140 mmHg 1,223/1,0694 885/1,0584 1,004/1,1020 −0.65
(−1.31–0.69)
1.04
(0.96–1.14)
0.342 2.07
(1.36–3.54)
1.30
(1.20–1.41)
<0.001* 0.014*
SBP ≥ 140 mmHg 1,064/6,517 851/6,627 877/6,191 −1.21
(−2.30–0.89)
1.00
(0.90–1.11)
0.982 2.02
(0.85–4.32)
1.07
(0.97–1.18)
0.159

HRs, hazard ratios; IRD, incidence rate difference; SBP, systolic blood pressure.

*

Cox proportional hazard regression model, Significance at P < 0.05.

The model was adjusted for age, sex, income, region, obesity, smoking, alcohol consumption, systolic blood pressure, fasting blood glucose, total cholesterol and CCI scores.