Risk factors of chronic periodontitis on healing response: a multilevel modelling analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Chronic periodontitis is a multifactorial polygenetic disease with an increasing number of associated factors that have been identified over recent decades. Longitudinal epidemiologic studies have demonstrated that the risk factors were related to the progression of the disease. A traditional multivariate regression model was used to find risk factors associated with chronic periodontitis. However, the approach requirement of standard statistical procedures demands individual independence. Multilevel modelling (MLM) data analysis has widely been used in recent years, regarding thorough hierarchical structuring of the data, decomposing the error terms into different levels, and providing a new analytic method and framework for solving this problem. The purpose of our stud

SUBMITTER: Song J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5603071 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature