Pearsons and partial correlations were used to
explore the relationships among age, BMI, and caries. Most
of the children were girls and were African American. Slightly
more than half of the children were overweight (19.7%) or
obese (30.6%) and had caries (50.3%). Significant
positive correlations between age and BMI (p = .03) as well as
between age and caries (p = .003) were found. As BMI
increased, so did caries (p = .08).