Hypertension, Periodontal Disease, and Potassium Intake in Nonsmoking, Nondrinker African Women on No Medication

Table 3

Simple correlation coefficients between periodontitis and tooth loss with traditional risk factors possibly related to hypertension in middle-aged women.

Periodontitis			Tooth loss
Versus	𝑟	𝑃 value	Versus	𝑟	𝑃 value
NaCl (g/day)^†	−0.179	0.329	NaCl (g/day)	−0.112	0.547
KCl (g/day)^†	−0.579	0.0004^§	KCl (g/day)	−0.204	0.265
Na/K	0.160	0.385	Na/K	0.081	0.660
Mg (mg/day)	−0.336	0.060	Mg (mg/day)	−0.273	0.131
Total-C	0.002	0.986	Total-C	−0.102	0.400
TG	−0.007	0.951	TG	−0.083	0.495
HDL-C	0.059	0.627	HDL-C	−0.114	0.345
BMI	−0.160	0.184	BMI	−0.271	0.022^‡
HbA1c	−0.071	0.558	HbA1c	−0.158	0.189

Values are correlation coefficients (𝑟), ^‡𝑃<0.05, ^§𝑃<0.001.
24-hour urine (𝑛=32), blood chemistry and BMI (𝑛=81), and ^†24-hour urinary sodium and potassium excretions were measured and the intakes were estimated as the amount of chloride salt.