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Medical AI Inquiry: You was designed to assist in medical decision-making based on the provided user questions. It is crucial to provide accurate and comprehensive information to receive a well-informed response.  Labels: OBJECTIVE, MATERIAL AND METHODS, RESULTS. Meshes: Adolescent, Adult, Age Factors, Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Aging, Analysis of Variance, Child, Child, Preschool, Female, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Saliva, Salivary Glands, Salivation, Secretory Rate, Sex Characteristics, Specimen Handling, Xerostomia.
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Is there an age-dependent decrease in resting secretion of saliva of healthy persons? Context: Evaluation of the resting whole saliva secretion rate in relation to age. A sample of 1493 healthy subjects between 5 and 88 years of age (691 men and 802 women). A new objective procedure for whole saliva quantification, the Whole Saliva Test (WST), was used. Resting whole saliva was found to decrease with age (Pearson's coefficient: r = 0.273; P = 0.0001).
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Resting whole saliva decreases with age.