Oral Tori in Chronic Hemodialysis Patients

Table 1

Baseline characteristics of hemodialysis patients with or without oral tori formation (n = 119).

Variable	All patients (n = 119)	Patients with oral tori (n = 40)	Patients without oral tori (n = 79)	value
Age, year	59.8 ± 14.7	60.0 ± 13.2	59.7 ± 15.5	0.905
Male sex, (%)	60 (50.4)	18 (45.0)	42 (53.2)	0.400
Body mass index, kg/m^2	22.3 ± 3.4	22.7 ± 3.7	22.1 ± 3.2	0.360
Diabetes mellitus, (%)	47 (39.5)	19 (47.5)	28 (35.4)	0.204
Hypertension, (%)	66 (55.5)	23 (57.5)	43 (54.4)	0.750
Smoking habit, (%)	27 (22.7)	8 (20)	19 (24.1)	0.618
Alcohol consumption, (%)	20 (16.8)	5 (12.5)	15 (19.0)	0.371