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Table 3 Lifetime bottle and pacifier use, non-nutritive sucking habits, current bruxism, primary headache and recurrent abdominal pain in the two birth cohorts.

From: Prevalence of non-communicable diseases in Brazilian children: follow-up at school age of two Brazilian birth cohorts of the 1990's

Variables

Ribeirão Preto

São Luís

P value

 

n

% weighted*

n

% weighted*

 

Lifetime bottle use

    

< 0.001

Yes

709

89.6

463

68.3

 

No

79

10.4

206

30.7

 

Missing

2

-

4

-

 

Lifetime pacifier use

    

< 0.001

Yes

502

63.8

263

38.7

 

No

286

36.2

405

61.3

 

Missing

2

-

5

-

 

Lifetime finger sucking

    

0.137

Yes

80

9.9

80

12.4

 

No

708

90.1

591

87.6

 

Missing

2

-

2

-

 

Non-nutritive sucking habits (lifetime pacifier use or finger sucking)

    

< 0.001

Yes

543

69.1

322

47.9

 

No

243

30.9

346

52.1

 

Missing

4

-

5

-

 

Current bruxism (teeth clenching or grinding)

    

0.903

Yes

228

28.9

192

29.2

 

No

551

71.1

472

70.8

 

Missing

11

-

9

-

 

Primary headache (2 or more episodes in the two preceding weeks)

    

< 0.001

Yes

206

27.9

87

13.0

 

No

556

72.1

568

87.0

 

Missing

28

-

18

-

 

Recurrent abdominal pain (pain in the last three months that affected the child's daily activities)

    

0.887

Yes

172

21.9

144

21.6

 

No

617

78.1

529

78.4

 
  1. Ribeirão Preto, 2004/05 and São Luís, 2005/06.
  2. * Percentages may not add to 100% because of rounding. Missing values were excluded from percentages and P-value calculations.