Research Article
Periodontal Disease Is an Independent Predictor of Intracardiac Calcification
Table 2
Characteristics of the study population.
| | Variable | Cardiac calcium
absent () | Cardiac calcium
present () | value |
| | Age (±SD) | 52.4 (13.3) | 58.8 (11.9) | 0.04 | | Race (%) | | | | | Asian | 41.2 | 60.7 | 0.16 | | Black | 41.2 | 30.4 | 0.42 | | White | 17.6 | 8.9 | 0.31 | | Male (%) | 17.6 | 46.4 | 0.034 | | Diabetes (%) | 12.5 | 18.5 | 0.58 | | Hyperlipidemia (%) | 12.5 | 35.2 | 0.082 | | Smoking (%) | 18.8 | 22.2 | 0.77 | | Hypertension (%) | 25 | 29.6 | 0.72 | | Family history of CAD (%) | 12.5 | 11.11 | 0.89 | | Chronic kidney disease (%) | 0 | 3.7 | 0.44 | | GFR (mL/min ± SD) | 106.8 (23.8) | 99.7 (25.9) | 0.37 | | Periodontal score (±SD) | 1.52 (0.75) | 2.31 (0.84) | 01 |
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