Table 1 Sample distribution, stratified by age groups (< 70 years, 70–79 years, ≥80 years) across gender and SES as number and percentage (%) among functional units (Upper + Lower), type of prosthetic dental restorations (Upper + Lower), MMSE, BMI and MNA
From: The burden of tooth loss in Italian elderly population living in nursing homes
Age group | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
< 70 | 70–79 | ≥80 | ||||||||||
Gender | SES | Gender | SES | Gender | SES | |||||||
Men | Women | Low | High | Men | Women | Low | High | Men | Women | Low | High | |
Functional units | p = 0.46 | p = 0.81 | p= 0.02 | p= 0.04 | p = 0.67 | p = 0.12 | ||||||
Insufficient for chewing | 64 (38.10) | 55 (32.74) | 28 (27.72) | 44 (43.57) | 104 (30.86) | 176 (52.23) | 92 (32.86) | 147 (52.50) | 245 (16.88) | 1044 (71.95) | 394 (30.95) | 739 (58.05) |
Sufficient for chewing | 11 (6.54) | 10 (5.95) | 7 (6.93) | 8 (7.92) | 11 (3.27) | 14 (4.15) | 13 (4.64) | 7 (2.50) | 17 (1.17) | 58 (4.00) | 27 (2.12) | 34 (2.67) |
Good for chewing | 13 (7.74) | 15 (8.93) | 5 (4.95) | 9 (8.91) | 18 (5.34) | 14 (4.15) | 6 (2.14) | 15 (5.36) | 27 (1.86) | 60 (4.14) | 34 (2.67) | 45 (3.54) |
Prosthetic dental restorations | p = 0.81 | p = 0.36 | p = 0.62 | p= 0.04 | p = 0.18 | p< 0.01 | ||||||
Absence | 54 (33.33) | 54 (33.33) | 26 (26.00) | 33 (33.00) | 71 (21.07) | 97 (28.78) | 59 (21.07) | 75 (26.79) | 128 (8.83) | 455 (31.40) | 208 (16.35) | 277 (21.78) |
Fixed | 10 (6.17) | 6 (3.71) | 2 (2.00) | 10 (10.00) | 21 (6.23) | 31 (9.20) | 19 (6.78) | 21 (7.50) | 47 (3.24) | 175 (12.08) | 64 (5.03) | 144 (11.32) |
Removable | 13 (8.03) | 14 (8.64) | 8 (8.00) | 13 (13.00) | 36 (10.68) | 69 (20.48) | 32 (11.43) | 63 (22.50) | 105 (7.25) | 486 (33.54) | 171 (13.44) | 360 (28.30) |
Combined | 6 (3.70) | 5 (3.09) | 3 (3.00) | 5 (5.00) | 5 (1.48) | 7 (2.08) | 1 (0.36) | 10 (3.57) | 7 (0.48) | 46 (3.18) | 11 (0.87) | 37 (2.91) |
MMSE | p = 0.56 | p = 0.24 | p = 0.07 | p = 0.40 | p = 0.84 | p = 0.18 | ||||||
No impairment | 46 (39.32) | 31 (26.49) | 21 (25.93) | 36 (44.44) | 56 (24.45) | 73 (31.88) | 48 (23.64) | 65 (32.02) | 90 (9.54) | 350 (37.12) | 161 (19.05) | 227 (26.86) |
Suspected | 4 (3.42) | 3 (2.56) | 3 (3,70) | 2 (2.47) | 5 (2.18) | 11 (4.80) | 10 (4.93) | 5 (2.46) | 6 (0.63) | 39 (4.14) | 15 (1.78) | 27 (3.20) |
Mild | 6 (5.13) | 4 (3,42) | 5 (6.17) | 3 (3,70) | 11 (4.80) | 10 (4.37) | 8 (3.94) | 11 (5.42) | 22 (2.33) | 85 (9.01) | 42 (4.97) | 53 (6.27) |
Moderate | 6 (5.13) | 5 (4.27) | 1 (1,24) | 2 (2.47) | 7 (3.06) | 28 (12.23) | 11 (5.42) | 18 (8.87) | 36 (3.82) | 160 (16.97) | 83 (9.82) | 98 (11.60) |
Severe | 4 (3.42) | 8 (6.84) | 1 (1,24) | 7 (8.64) | 10 (4.37) | 18 (7.86) | 10 (4.93) | 17 (8.37) | 30 (3.18) | 125 (13.26) | 46 (5.44) | 93 (11.01) |
BMI | p = 0.08 | p = 0.05 | p = 0.10 | p = 0.25 | p = 0.23 | p = 0.23 | ||||||
Important underweight | 2 (1.91) | 2 (1.91) | 1 (1.49) | 0 (0.00) | 5 (2.25) | 13 (5.86) | 11 (5.76) | 5 (2.62) | 12 (1.20) | 88 (8.81) | 37 (4.09) | 53 (5.86) |
Underweight | 3 (2.86) | 9 (8.57) | 1 (1.49) | 9 (13.43) | 8 (3.60) | 23 (10.36) | 13 (6.81) | 15 (7.85) | 30 (3.00) | 127 (12.71) | 48 (5.30) | 95 (10.50) |
Ideal | 6 (5.71) | 9 (8.57) | 3 (4.48) | 9 (13.43) | 24 (10.81) | 31 (13.97) | 19 (9.95) | 31 (16.23) | 60 (6.01) | 239 (23.92) | 98 (10.83) | 181 (20.00) |
Overweight | 29 (27.62) | 15 (14.28) | 14 (20.90) | 11 (16.42) | 41 (18.47) | 47 (21.17) | 31 (16.23) | 40 (20.94) | 70 (7.01) | 251 (25.13) | 110 (12.15) | 177 (19.56) |
Obese | 18 (17.14) | 12 (11.43) | 9 (13.43) | 10 (14.93) | 8 (3.60) | 22 (9.91) | 14 (7.33) | 12 (6.28) | 20 (2.00) | 102 (10.21) | 49 (5.41) | 57 (6.30) |
MNA | p = 0.42 | p = 0.26 | p = 0.14 | p = 0.37 | p = 0.56 | p = 1.00 | ||||||
High | 10 (25.64) | 7 (17.95) | 7 (17.95) | 10 (25.64) | 23 (17.04) | 38 (28.15) | 35 (26.32) | 25 (18.80) | 66 (11.64) | 256 (45.15) | 126 (22.18) | 197 (34.68) |
Average | 9 (23.08) | 12 (30.77) | 13 (33.33) | 8 (20.51) | 34 (25.19) | 30 (22.22) | 29 (21.80) | 34 (25.56) | 47 (8.29) | 167 (29.45) | 81 (14.26) | 133 (23.42) |
Low | 1 (2.56) | – | – | 1 (2.57) | 6 (4.44) | 4 (2.96) | 6 (4.51) | 4 (3.01) | 4 (0.71) | 27 (4.76) | 18 (3.17) | 13 (2.29) |