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Table 6 The association between oral health-related impacts after treatment (presence or absence) and weight gain after treatment

From: Associations between oral health-related impacts and rate of weight gain after extraction of pulpally involved teeth in underweight preschool Filipino children

 

WAZ-difference• β-coefficient

95% CI

p-value*

SOHO-5-score (continuous)i

0.04

(0.01, 0.05)

0.04

Eating impactii

0.16

(−0.02, 0.33)

0.09

Sleeping impactsii

0.26

(0.08, 0.44)

0.006

Dental painii

0.17

(−0.10, 0.44)

0.21

  1. *Simple linear regression.
  2. i‘SOHO-5-score after treatment.
  3. ii‘absent’ regressed against ‘present’ (reference).
  4. •Difference in weight-for-age (Z-score) between before and after treatment.
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BMC Public Health

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