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. 2022 Sep 2;22:1662. doi: 10.1186/s12889-022-14096-7

Table 2.

Ordinal logistic regression analysis of association between periodontitis and education level

Variable Units OR [95%CI] p-value
Model 1
Education Low 1.41 [1.29;1.52]  < 0.001
Medium 0.96 [0.82;1.09] 0.537
High Ref
Model 2
Education Low 1.33 [1.18;1.47]  < 0.001
Medium 1.08 [0.91;1.25] 0.381
High Ref
Age 1.05 [1.04;1.06]  < 0.001
Sex Male Ref
Female 0.58 [0.45;0.71]  < 0.001
Smoking No Ref
Yes 1.85 [1.68;2.02] 0.001
Diabetes No Ref
Yes 1.03 [0.78;1.28] 0.803
Hypertension No Ref
Yes 1.21 [1.07;1.34] 0.007
Migration status No migration background Ref
Immigrated 1.14 [0.98;1.30] 0.115
Migration background 0.89 [0.64;1.14] 0.365

Model 1: unadjusted. Model 2: fully adjusted