Importance in the Occurrence Distribution of Minimum Oropharyngeal Cross-Sectional Area in the Different Skeletal Patterns Using Cone-Beam Computed Tomography

Table 4

Pearson test of oropharyngeal airway in the patient’s characteristics.

	UOA	MUOA	UOV	LOA	MLOA	LOV	MTOA	TOV
Gender	0.253	0.247	0.235	0.400	0.322	0.371	0.247	0.322
Skeletal	0.161	0.231	0.149	0.123	0.072	0.111	0.163	0.146
Age	-0.149	-0.164	-0.104	-0.221	-0.091	-0.150	-0.171	-0.136
BMI	0.038	-0.030	-0.075	0.118	0.054	-0.007	-0.041	-0.051
ANB	-0.348	-0.349	-0.272	-0.294	-0.237	-0.234	-0.292	-0.281
HX	0.386	0.341	0.288	0.232	0.224	0.211	0.265	0.280
HY	0.281	0.237	0.296	0.388	0.198	0.392	0.219	0.370
PogX	0.476	0.455	0.387	0.333	0.318	0.293	0.384	0.381
PogY	0.202	0.217	0.229	0.202	0.090	0.192	0.186	0.234

UOA: upper oropharyngeal area; MUOA: minimum upper oropharyngeal area; LOA: lower oropahryngeal area; MLOA: minimum lower oropharyngeal area; UOV: upper oropharyngeal volume; LOV: lower oropharyngeal volume; MTOA: minimum total pharyngeal area; TOV: total oropharyngeal volume; BMI: body mass index; HX: hyoid (horizontal); HY: hyoid (vertical); PogX: pogonion (horizontal); PogY: pogonion (vertical). Statistically significant, .