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Table 3 One year odds of symptom improvement and worsening in the treatment group

From: Longitudinal analysis of the association between removal of dental amalgam, urine mercury and 14 self-reported health symptoms

 

Greater than one year

Symptom

Tx Group Symptoms Improve

Tx Group Symptoms Get Worse

N

Headache

1.222 {0.342}

0.616^ {0.0516}

368

Memory loss

1.600* {0.0255}

0.721 {0.157}

374

Depession

1.206 {0.370}

0.781 {0.290}

370

Fatigue/Sleep disturbance

1.499^ {0.0598}

0.729 {0.173}

371

Anxiety

1.143 {0.522}

0.929 {0.764}

373

Unusually Moody

1.368 {0.134}

0.897 {0.649}

370

Confusion

1.462^ {0.0832}

0.613* {0.0342}

370

Stomach problems

1.571* {0.0360}

0.627* {0.0459}

369

Loss sense of smell or taste

1.588^ {0.0727}

0.376* {0.000508}

369

Shakiness in hands

1.499^ {0.0937}

0.519* {0.0102}

371

Parasthesia

1.048 {0.849}

0.840 {0.523}

345

Unintentionally dropping things

1.173 {0.481}

0.912 {0.730}

367

Coordination problems

1.122 {0.628}

0.574* {0.0329}

367

Muscle weakness

1.282 {0.246}

0.635^ {0.0676}

367

  1. One year odds of symptom improvement and worsening in the treatment group controlling for age and sex. Odds ratio coefficients are the odds of change in treatment group relative to the positive amalgam group. {P values}; *indicates coefficient is different from 1 at size 0.05; ^represents statistical significance at size 0.10.