Cross-Sectional Association between the Number of Missing Teeth and Cardiovascular Disease among Adults Aged 50 or Older: BRFSS 2010

Table 1

Characteristics of the 275,424 study participants according to the number of missing teeth in the behavioral risk factor surveillance system, 2010 (𝑁, weighted%).

	No missing teeth		1–5 missing teeth		6 or more, but not all missing teeth		All teeth missing		Chi-square; 𝑃 value
	𝑁	wt%	𝑁	wt%	𝑁	wt%	𝑁	wt%
Participants	90023	35.2	97745	36.5	53718	18.4	33938	9.9	𝑃<0.0001
Cardiovascular disease	7063	2.6	11828	4.3	10415	3.5	8484	2.5	𝑃<0.0001
No CV disease	82960	32.6	85917	32.2	43303	14.8	25454	7.4
Female	57151	19.2	59852	18.9	33411	10.0	22212	5.7	𝑃<0.0001
Male	32872	16.0	37893	17.6	20307	8.4	11726	4.2
NHW	78872	29.6	80194	27.5	41231	13.0	26916	7.4	𝑃<0.0001
NHB	2801	1.4	6681	3.3	6265	2.6	3256	1.2
Hispanic	3786	2.7	5494	3.9	2844	1.7	1519	0.7
Other	3568	1.6	4213	1.8	2640	1.0	1602	0.5
50–59	40555	19.5	32666	15.9	12544	5.5	5134	2.0	𝑃<0.0001
60–69	28650	9.5	33429	11.3	17770	5.8	10105	2.9
70 and above	20818	6.3	31650	9.4	23404	7.0	18699	4.9
Less than HS	3256	1.5	6410	3.0	7948	2.9	9144	2.7	𝑃<0.0001
High school	18957	6.9	30798	10.7	21178	6.9	14550	4.2
Some college	23365	8.6	27670	10.1	14392	4.8	7114	2.0
College	44260	18.3	32687	12.8	10085	3.8	3024	1.0
<$15,000	4491	1.8	8227	3.3	9201	3.2	8061	2.4	𝑃<0.0001
$15K to <$25K	8981	3.3	15069	5.6	12457	4.5	9741	3.2
$25K to <$35K	7836	2.9	11872	4.4	7428	2.9	4162	1.5
$35K to <$50K	12131	4.8	14988	6.0	7216	3.0	3207	1.2
$50K+	44262	22.7	33898	17.3	9896	4.9	2866	1.2
Dental visit	74667	29.4	76174	28.2	33882	11.6	7042	2.3	𝑃<0.0001
No dental visit	15199	5.9	21411	8.4	19649	6.7	26185	7.5
Smoker	7046	2.8	11504	4.6	10440	3.8	8225	2.6	𝑃<0.0001
Past smoker	28202	11.0	35200	13.3	22432	7.8	14490	4.2
Never smoker	54127	21.4	50472	18.7	20526	6.8	11019	3.1
Diabetes	11415	4.4	17373	6.6	13382	4.8	9573	2.8	𝑃<0.0001
No diabetes	78542	30.8	80289	29.9	40285	13.6	24319	7.0
PA	71328	28.3	71300	26.9	33562	11.6	18410	5.4	𝑃<0.0001
No PA	18606	7.0	26320	9.7	20079	6.7	15461	4.5
BMI < 25	32816	12.5	29891	10.9	15293	5.1	10711	3.1	𝑃<0.0001
BMI 25 to <30	33171	14.0	36594	14.6	19239	6.9	11785	3.7
BMI 30+	20434	8.6	27587	11.0	17416	6.4	10172	3.1

NHW: non-Hispanic White; NHB: non-Hispanic Black; HS: high school; K: 1000; Dental visit: dental visit within the year; PA: physical activity; BMI: body mass index.