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Table 2 Salivary HST-5 and β-defensin-2 levels in severe and mild groups of patients

From: A study on β-defensin-2 and histatin-5 as a diagnostic marker of early childhood caries progression

 

The severe group (n = 24)

The mild group (n = 17)

p*

Mean (ng/ml)

SD

Mean (ng/ml)

SD

HST-5

50.55

0.50

42.55

0.36

0.03

β-defensin-2

2.22

0.19

1.74

0.21

0.04

  1. No correlation was observed between HST-5, β-defensin-2 levels, and age, gender, social habits, diets, medications or any other co-founding factors (not published results)
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