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Each row is one question a systematic review asked: who, what, compared with what, and which outcome, with the effect it found and how certain that is. Words match anywhere in the field.
17 questions in 8 reviews · cluster CL0365
current versionsNo studies 0 · 0%Ungraded 17 · 100%Very low 0 · 0%Low 0 · 0%Moderate 0 · 0%High 0 · 0%
Ungraded means an effect was reported without a GRADE rating; it is not a gap. No studies means the review found nothing to answer the question. The six categories are a display order, not a score.
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| Question | Effect | Evidence | Status / GRADE |
|---|---|---|---|
Intervention NR Serum vitamin D (25(OH)D): ECC vs caries-free · Case-control studies (Fig 3) The Association Between Vitamin D and Early Childhood Caries: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. (2024) | Mean difference -18.82 [-20.30, -17.33] | 6 studies | Ungraded |
Intervention NR Serum vitamin D (25(OH)D): ECC vs caries-free · Region: Asia (Fig 4) The Association Between Vitamin D and Early Childhood Caries: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. (2024) | Mean difference -14.14 [-15.37, -12.90] | 5 studies | Ungraded |
Intervention NR Dental caries prevalence in children · Meta-regression adjusted estimate Association between prenatal vitamin D deficiency with dental caries in infants and children: a systematic… (2024) | Proportion 0.21 [0.16, 0.26] | NR | Ungraded |
Intervention NR Serum vitamin D (25(OH)D): ECC vs caries-free · Region: North America (Fig 4) The Association Between Vitamin D and Early Childhood Caries: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. (2024) | Mean difference -13.10 [-16.97, -9.23] | 4 studies | Ungraded |
Intervention NR Serum vitamin D (25(OH)D): ECC vs caries-free · Cross-sectional studies (Fig 3) The Association Between Vitamin D and Early Childhood Caries: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. (2024) | Mean difference -6.10 [-8.02, -4.19] | 3 studies | Ungraded |
Intervention NR Caries prevalence · Publication-bias adjusted (trim-and-fill) Prevalence of dental caries in the permanent dentition amongst 12-year-olds in Africa: a systematic review… (2022) | Prevalence 0.354 [0.348, 0.361] | NR | Ungraded |
Intervention NR Dental caries prevalence · Somalia Prevalence of Dental Caries and Associated Factors in East Africa, 2000-2020: Systematic Review and… (2021) | Prevalence 0.414 [0.109, 0.719] | 2 studies | Ungraded |
Intervention NR Dental caries prevalence · Ethiopia Prevalence of Dental Caries and Associated Factors in East Africa, 2000-2020: Systematic Review and… (2021) | Prevalence 0.440 [0.326, 0.553] | 12 studies | Ungraded |
Intervention NR Dental caries prevalence · Kenya Prevalence of Dental Caries and Associated Factors in East Africa, 2000-2020: Systematic Review and… (2021) | Prevalence 0.456 [0.240, 0.672] | 5 studies | Ungraded |
Intervention NR Dental caries prevalence · Rwanda Prevalence of Dental Caries and Associated Factors in East Africa, 2000-2020: Systematic Review and… (2021) | Prevalence 0.425 [0.360, 0.489] | 1 study | Ungraded |
Intervention NR Dental caries prevalence · Sensitivity analysis (leave-one-out maximum) Prevalence of Dental Caries and Associated Factors in East Africa, 2000-2020: Systematic Review and… (2021) | Prevalence 0.466 [0.391, 0.541] | 43 studies | Ungraded |
Intervention NR Dental caries prevalence · Sensitivity analysis (leave-one-out minimum) Prevalence of Dental Caries and Associated Factors in East Africa, 2000-2020: Systematic Review and… (2021) | Prevalence 0.447 [0.384, 0.510] | 43 studies | Ungraded |
Intervention NR Dental caries prevalence · Trim-and-fill adjusted (publication-bias correction) Dental caries and associated factors in Ethiopia: systematic review and meta-analysis. (2021) | Prevalence 0.40984 [0.31623, 0.50344] | 13 studies | Ungraded |
Intervention NR Dental caries prevalence · Uganda Prevalence of Dental Caries and Associated Factors in East Africa, 2000-2020: Systematic Review and… (2021) | Prevalence 0.498 [0.348, 0.648] | 8 studies | Ungraded |
Intervention NR Dental caries prevalence · Preschoolers (AlKhayat, Dubai private preschools) Oral Health of Children and Adolescents in the United Arab Emirates: A Systematic Review of the Past Decade. (2021) | Prevalence 38.5% | 1 study | Ungraded |
Intervention NR Untreated dental caries prevalence · - Oral health in children and adolescents with juvenile idiopathic arthritis - a systematic review and… (2019) | Proportion with untreated caries NR (significantly higher in JIA) | 2 studies | Ungraded |
Intervention NR Dental caries prevalence · Sensitivity analysis: one-study-removed (leave-one-out) Prevalence of dental caries in children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes: a systematic review and… (2019) | Prevalence 0.65 to 0.70 (range) | 10 studies | Ungraded |