Oral Yeast Colonization and Fungal Infections in Peritoneal Dialysis Patients: A Pilot Study

Table 4

Smoking habits, oral hygiene, and saliva biochemistry of peritoneal dialysis (PD) patients and controls.

	PD patients	Controls	value
Smoking habits
Past (%)	58.3%	40.9%	0.331
Present (%)	16.7%	22.7%	>0.999
Visual plaque index (%)	56 (16, 100)	69 (14, 100)	0.489
Saliva biochemistry
Flow rate (mL min^−1)	0.41 (0.05, 1.06)	0.26 (0.10, 1.04)	0.432
pH	8.0 (6.5, 8.0)	6.8 (6.2, 8.0)	<0.001
Urea (mg dL^−1)	110.41 ± 36.64	47.85 ± 23.88	<0.001
Phosphorus (mg dL^−1)	22.76 ± 8.19	18.58 ± 16.86	0.486
IgA (mg dL^−1)	143.0 (126.0, 178.0)	136.5 (30.0, 167.0)	0.361
Amylase (U L^−1)	309.45 (127.40, 757.50)	562.6 (312.90, 571.10)	0.310

Results are prevalence (%), median (min, max) or mean ± SD; PD, peritoneal dialysis. .