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

Table 3

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

Periopathogens	Subgingival plaque	Atheromatous plaque		% agreement	Kappa	value
		No	Yes
Porphyromonas gingivalis (P.g.)	No	12	0	82.1	0.65	<0.001
	Yes	5	11
Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans (A.a.)	No	16	0	82.1	0.62	<0.001
	Yes	5	7
Tannerella forsythia (T.f.)	No	5	0	64.3	0.32	0.022
	Yes	10	13
Treponema denticola (T.d.)	No	25	0	96.4	0.78	<0.001
	Yes	1	2
Prevotella intermedia (P.i.)	No	9	0	67.9	0.42	0.007
	Yes	9	10