Demographic and Habitual Factors of Periodontal Disease among South Indian Adults

Siddharthan Selvaraj, Nyi Nyi Naing, Nadiah Wan-Arfah and Mauro Henrique Nogueira Guimarães de Abreu
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Siddharthan Selvaraj: Faculty of Medicine, Medical Campus, Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin, Kuala Terengganu, Terengganu 20400, Malaysia
Nyi Nyi Naing: Faculty of Medicine, Medical Campus, Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin, Kuala Terengganu, Terengganu 20400, Malaysia
Nadiah Wan-Arfah: Faculty of Health Sciences, Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin, Kuala Terengganu, Terengganu 20400, Malaysia
Mauro Henrique Nogueira Guimarães de Abreu: School of Dentistry, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte 31270-901, Brazil

IJERPH, 2021, vol. 18, issue 15, 1-12

Abstract: The aim of this study was to evaluate the performance of a set of sociodemographic and habits measures on estimating periodontal disease among south Indian adults. This cross-sectional study was carried out among 288 individuals above 18 years old in Tamil Nadu, India. The outcome of the study was periodontal disease, measured by WHO criteria. The covariates were age, ethnicity, smoking and alcohol habit. The assessment of factors predicting periodontal disease was carried out by multiple logistic regression analysis using R version 3.6.1. The demographic factors like age group (AOR = 3.56; 95% CI 1.69–7.85), ethnicity (AOR = 6.07; 95% CI 2.27–18.37), non-alcoholic (AOR = 0.31; 95% CI 0.13–0.64) and non-smoking (AOR = 0.33; 95% CI 0.15–0.67) were found to be associated with the outcome. The maximum log likelihood estimate value was ?30.5 and AIC was 385 for the final model, respectively. Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve for the periodontal disease was 0.737. We can conclude that sociodemographic factors and habits were useful for predicting periodontal diseases.

Keywords: periodontal disease; epidemiology; habits; logistic model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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