Association between early childhood caries and malnutrition in a sub-urban population in Nigeria.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:To determine the association between malnutrition and early childhood caries (ECC) in children resident in sub-urban, Nigeria. METHODS:This study was a subset of a larger cross-sectional study the data of which was generated through a household survey conducted in Ile-Ife, Nigeria. The study's explanatory variable was malnutrition (underweight, overweight, wasting and stunting) and the outcome variable was ECC. Poisson regression analysis was used to determine the association between ECC and malnutrition. Variables (sex, frequency of sugar consumption, maternal knowledge of oral hygiene, oral hygiene status) associated with ECC in the primary study were adjusted for to obtain the adjusted prevalence ratio (APR). RESULTS:Of the 370 children, 20 (5.41%) were underweight, 20 (5.41%

SUBMITTER: Folayan MO 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6852898 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature