Associations between Caries among Children and Household Sugar Procurement, Exposure to Fluoridated Water and Socioeconomic Indicators in the Brazilian Capital Cities

Table 2

Mean values of the sugar procurement, socioeconomic variables, and water fluoridation in Brazilian capitals, according to the five geographic regions of Brazil. Minimum and maximum values are in parenthesis.

	Procurement^1of free sugar	Procurement^1of sugary soft drinks	Procurement^1 of confectionery	HDI^3	Gini Index^3	Per capita income^3	Water fluoridation (years)^2
North (𝑛=7)	13.7 (11.9–16.0)	19.3 (9.4–31.1)	0.34 (0.19–0.72)	0.78 (0.75–0.81)	0.63 (0.58–0.65)	293.9 (253.7–358.1)	1 (0–7)
Northeast (𝑛=9)	14.6 (7.3–21.0)	16.3 (7.7–23.1)	0.58 (0.32–1.01)	0.78 (0.74–0.81)	0.65 (0.63–0.68)	317.1 (250.7–392.5)	4.3 (0–14)
Central-West (𝑛=4)	23.1 (13.5–46.2)	39.1 (22.6–70.5)	2.30 (0.82–4.99)	0.83 (0.81–0.84)	0.63 (0.61–0.65)	487.6 (394.7–605.4)	14.3 (0–26)
Southeast (𝑛=4)	15.2 (11.2–19.5)	33.4 (23.1–42.5)	1.79 (1.38–2.28)	0.84 (0.84–0.86)	0.62 (0.61–0.62)	608.0 (557.4–667.7)	22.0 (16–28)
South (𝑛=3)	11.6 (8.1–15.6)	36.7 (27.4–46.1)	2.34 (2.05–2.51)	0.87 (0.86–0.88)	0.59 (0.57–0.61)	677.0 (619.8–709.9)	30.3 (21–44)
Brazil (𝑛=27)	15.4 (7.3–46.2)	25.2 (7.7–70.5)	1.15 (0.19–4.99)	0.81 (0.74–0.88)	0.63 (0.57–0.68)	419.4 (250.7–709.9)	10.4 (0–44)

Data from the ¹2003 Household Food Budget Survey[16], ²2010 Brazilian National Survey on Oral Health [11], and ³2000 United Nations Program for Development [17].