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. 2023 Jun 15;15:25. doi: 10.1038/s41368-023-00227-2

Table 1.

Clinical evidence of periodontitis as a promoting factor of T2D

Design Sample size and characteristics Exposure Main outcomes
Cross-sectional study11 37 patients with severe periodontitis and 37 patients with healthy periodontium.

•PPD

•CAL

FBG (P < 0.001), HbA1c (P < 0.05), HOMA-IR (P < 0.05), and IFG (OR:7.489, 95% CI: 1.408–39.839; P < 0.01) were increased in patients with severe periodontitis.
Cross-sectional study12 5070 patients with periodontitis and 12,108 patients without periodontitis •CPI score IFG (P < 0.001) was increased and HOMA-β (P < 0.001) was decreased in periodontitis patients.
Cross-sectional study13 665 patients with no/mild periodontitis and 500 patients with moderate/severe periodontitis

•PPD

•CAL

IGT was increased in patients with moderate (OR:1.07, 95% CI: 0.50-2.25; P = 0.02) or severe (OR:1.93, 95% CI:1.18–3.17; P = 0.02) periodontitis.
Cross-sectional study14 47 patients with periodontitis and 63 patients without periodontitis among severely obese, nondiabetic individuals

•PPD

•BOP

•CAL

The serum GLP-1 level (P < 0.000 1) was decreased in periodontitis patients.

Prospective cohort study,

Follow-up:5 years15

1341 patients with periodontitis and 4033 patients without periodontitis •CPI score Incidence of hyperglycemia was increased by 33% (aHR:1.33, 95% CI :1.09–1.63) in periodontitis patients.
Retrospective cohort study, Mean follow-up: 5.47 ± 3.54 years16 22299 patients with periodontitis needing dental surgery and 22302 patients with periodontitis not requiring dental surgery

•Subgingival curettage

•Periodontal flap procedure

Incidence of T2D was 1.24-fold higher (aHR:1.19,95% CI :1.10–1.29) in patients with periodontitis needing dental surgery.
Cross sectional study17 207 patients with periodontitis and 67 patients without periodontitis in T2D patients

•PPD

•CAL

•LGM

•PI

•GI

FBG (P < 0.000 1), HbA1c (P < 0.000 1) and the risk of diabetes-associated complications (P < 0.000 1) were increased in T2D patients with periodontitis patients.
Cross sectional study18 20 T2D patients with periodontitis, 20 T2D patients without periodontitis and 20 nondiabetic controls with periodontitis

•BOP

•PPD

HbA1c (P = 0.002) and FBG (P = 0.04) were increased and HOMA-β (P = 0.01) was decreased in T2D with periodontitis patients.
Cross sectional study19 50 patients with chronic periodontitis and 50 patients without periodontitis.

•PI

•OHI-s

•MGI

•PPD

•CAL

HbA1c (P = 0.001) and FBG (P = 0.002) were increased in chronic periodontitis patients.
Cross sectional study24 126 patients with none/mild periodontitis, 156 patients with moderate periodontitis and 18 patients with severe periodontitis •Bacterial burden score Higher colonization levels of specific periodontal microbiota are associated with higher prediabetes prevalence among diabetes-free adults (A. actinomycetemcomitans, 2.48 (1.34, 4.58), P = 0.004; P. gingivalis, 3.41 (1.78, 6.58), P = 0.000 3; T. denticola, 1.99 (0.992, 4.00), P = 0.052).
Cross sectional study25 114 patients with none/mild periodontitis, 159 patients with moderate periodontitis and 27 patients with severe periodontitis. •The relative abundance of bacterial phyla The levels of Actinobacteria, Proteobacteria or Firmicutes were associated with insulin resistance (P < 0.05), and the strongest positive correlations between bacterial taxa and HOMA-IR was for Prevotella sp. HOT-299_AH07, r = 0.21 (P = 0.01).
Cross sectional study26 52 non-alcoholic fatty liver disease •IgG antibody titers Anti-A. actinomycetemcomitans IgG antibody titer correlated positively with the HOMA-IR (P = 0.001, ρ = 0.46).
Cross sectional study7 97 patients with none/mild periodontitis, 117 patients with moderate periodontitis and 16 patients with severe periodontitis. •Microbial dysbiosis index Higher levels of the microbial dysbiosis index were strongly associated with higher levels of glucose change after multivariable adjustment (P < 0.000 1). Baseline levels of 9 taxa predicted FBG change (all FDR < 0.05), among which Stomatobaculum sp oral taxon 097 and Atopobium spp predicted greater FBG change.

T2D type 2 diabetes, PPD probing pocket depth, CAL clinical attachment level, FBG fasting blood glucose, IFG impaired fasting glucose, OR odds ratio, CI confidence intervals, aHR adjusted hazard ratio, HbA1c glycated hemoglobin, HOMA-IR homeostasis model assessments of IR, CPI community periodontal index, HOMA-β homeostasis model assessments of β-cell function, IGT impaired glucose tolerance, BOP bleeding on probing, GLP-1 glucagon-like peptide-1, LGM location of gingival margin, PI plaque index, GI gingival index, OHI-s simplified oral hygiene index, MGI modified gingival index, FDR false discovery rate