Table 4 Trends in prevalence of dental caries according to sex and abdominal obesity.

Group^a	Dental caries (weighted % ± standard error)													Age-unadjusted		Age-adjusted
Group^a	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	Coefficient	p for trend	Coefficient	p for trend
Boys
Abdominal obesity	0.77 ± 0.07	0.64 ± 0.06	0.69 ± 0.06	0.64 ± 0.07	0.65 ± 0.07	0.64 ± 0.07	0.71 ± 0.08	0.59 ± 0.08	0.59 ± 0.07	0.59 ± 0.09	0.52 ± 0.09	0.36 ± 0.08	0.63 ± 0.07	– 0.013	0.027	– 0.013	0.018
Non-abdominal obesity	0.66 ± 0.04	0.59 ± 0.02	0.64 ± 0.03	0.65 ± 0.03	0.65 ± 0.03	0.66 ± 0.03	0.57 ± 0.03	0.54 ± 0.03	0.53 ± 0.04	0.56 ± 0.04	0.54 ± 0.04	0.48 ± 0.04	0.46 ± 0.04	– 0.015	< 0.001	– 0.016	< 0.001
Girls
Abdominal obesity	0.71 ± 0.15	0.81 ± 0.08	0.94 ± 0.04	0.87 ± 0.07	0.66 ± 0.12	0.70 ± 0.17	0.70 ± 0.19	0.77 ± 0.14	0.81 ± 0.08	0.72 ± 0.13	0.96 ± 0.04	0.25 ± 0.12	0.79 ± 0.12	– 0.003	0.748	– 0.003	0.778
Non-abdominal obesity	0.72 ± 0.03	0.74 ± 0.02	0.74 ± 0.02	0.74 ± 0.02	0.68 ± 0.03	0.75 ± 0.03	0.70 ± 0.03	0.60 ± 0.03	0.58 ± 0.04	0.50 ± 0.04	0.64 ± 0.04	0.52 ± 0.04	0.54 ± 0.04	– 0.018	< 0.001	– 0.019	< 0.001

^aAbdominal obesity was defined as a waist circumference ≥ 90th percentile, using Korean waist circumference reference data.

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