Salivary Creatinine Estimation as an Alternative to Serum Creatinine in Chronic Kidney Disease Patients

Table 1

Comparison of serum and salivary creatinine levels between CKD patients and controls using 𝑡 test.

	Group	𝑁	Mean	Std. deviation	Std. error mean	𝑡-value	𝑃-value
Serum (mg/dL)	Controls	37	0.887	0.168	0.028	16.969	<0.001**
	Cases	105	5.956	3.048	0.297
Saliva (mg/dL)	Controls	37	0.122	0.060	0.010	11.126	<0.001**
	Cases	105	0.660	0.485	0.047

∗∗Denotes statistically highly significant.