Monitoring salivary amylase activity is useful for providing timely analgesia under sedation

Table 2 Body movement during salivary amylase activity elevation

	H-group	M-group	L-group	P value
No. of patients	14	8	19
No. of elevated sAMY (times)	26	30	16
≥ twice the actual value	26	11	0
< twice the actual value	0	19	16
with body movement	17	16	6	0.215 (10.078)
without body movement	9	14	10

¹Indicates a comparison between the H- and L-groups. sAMY: Salivary amylase activity.