Identification of Periopathogens in Atheromatous Plaques Obtained from Carotid and Coronary Arteries

Table 2

Presence of periopathogens in subgingival and atheromatous plaque of carotid arteries.

Periopathogens	Subgingival plaque	Atheromatous plaque		% agreement	Kappa	value
		No	Yes
Porphyromonas gingivalis (P.g.)	No	14	0	73.3	0.48	0.002
	Yes	8	8
Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans (A.a.)	No	19	0	70.0	0.22	0.054
	Yes	9	2
Tannerella forsythia (T.f.)	No	6	0	86.7	0.67	<0.001
	Yes	4	20
Treponema denticola (T.d.)	No	20	0	76.7	0.36	0.010
	Yes	7	3
Prevotella intermedia (P.i.)	No	7	0	43.3	0.14	0.131
	Yes	17	6