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Directed acyclic graph depicting the relationship between dietary vitamin D and calcium and periodontitis among Brazilian adults. Solid light gray lines indicate potential confounders included in the analysis, whereas solid black lines indicate the direct effect of dietary intake of vitamin D and calcium on periodontitis. Finally, the dashed black line indicates the influence of vitamin D and calcium intake on each other.
