Hypertension, Periodontal Disease, and Potassium Intake in Nonsmoking, Nondrinker African Women on No Medication

Table 4

Simple correlation coefficients between periodontitis and dietary intakes expressed by the frequency or the amount.

Periodontitis
Versus	𝑟	𝑃 value
Vegetables (days/week)	−0.232	0.031^†
Fruit (days/week)	−0.217	0.043^†
Skimmed milk (mL/day)	−0.304	0.004^†
Whole milk (mL/day)	−0.097	0.375
Coconut milk (mL/day)	0.119	0.273
Meat (days/week)	0.058	0.598
Fish (days/week)	0.052	0.637

Values are correlation coefficients (𝑟), ^†𝑃<0.05.