Research Article
Oral Yeast Colonization and Fungal Infections in Peritoneal Dialysis Patients: A Pilot Study
Table 4
Smoking habits, oral hygiene, and saliva biochemistry of peritoneal dialysis (PD) patients and controls.
| | PD patients | Controls | value |
| Smoking habits | Past (%) | 58.3% | 40.9% | 0.331 | Present (%) | 16.7% | 22.7% | >0.999 | Visual plaque index (%) | 56 (16, 100) | 69 (14, 100) | 0.489 | Saliva biochemistry | Flow rate (mL min−1) | 0.41 (0.05, 1.06) | 0.26 (0.10, 1.04) | 0.432 | pH | 8.0 (6.5, 8.0) | 6.8 (6.2, 8.0) | <0.001 | Urea (mg dL−1) | 110.41 ± 36.64 | 47.85 ± 23.88 | <0.001 | Phosphorus (mg dL−1) | 22.76 ± 8.19 | 18.58 ± 16.86 | 0.486 | IgA (mg dL−1) | 143.0 (126.0, 178.0) | 136.5 (30.0, 167.0) | 0.361 | Amylase (U L−1) | 309.45 (127.40, 757.50) | 562.6 (312.90, 571.10) | 0.310 |
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Results are prevalence (%), median (min, max) or mean ± SD; PD, peritoneal dialysis. .
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