Table 3 Significant positive correlation coefficients between trace elements in dentine and age.
From: Aging and trace elements in human coronal tooth dentine
Toxic elements | Essential elements | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Li | Sn | Pb | B | Ba | K | Sr | S | Zn | Mg | |
Correlation coefficient* | 0.483 | 0.401 | 0.880 | 0.222 | 0.282 | 0.399 | 0.294 | 0.327 | 0.185 | 0.262 |
P value | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.006 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.023 | 0.001 |