The Effect of Number of Teeth and Chewing Ability on Cognitive Function of Elderly in UAE: A Pilot Study

Table 1

Demographic characteristics of the subjects.

	Control	Low SMMSE score	Pearson’s	value
	Age					−0.277
Gender
Male	11 (57.9)	14 (45.2)	0.124
Female	8 (42.1)	17 (54.8)
Nationality
UAE	4 (16.0)	21 (84.0)	−0.453
Expatriate	15 (60.0)	10 (40.0)
Education
Uneducated	3 (10.3)	24 (16.7)	0.600
Educated	16 (8.7)	1 7 (14.3)
Health
Hypertension	7 (30.4)	16 (69.6)	−0.144
Diabetes	7 (29.2)	17 (70.8)	−0.175
Smoking
Nonsmoker	4 (21.1)	15 (16.0)	0.108
Smoker	4 (5.0)	27 (26.0)

SMMSE: Standardized mini-mental state examination; Square, as no., %;   -Test, as mean, standard deviation.