Table 5.
Periodontitis parameters and salivary inflammatory markers in patients with short- vs. long-duration diabetes and different degrees of coronary atherosclerosis.
| Short duration of diabetes | Long duration of diabetes | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Normal-to-mild coronary AS | Moderate-to-severe coronary AS | P value | Normal-to-mild coronary AS | Moderate-to-severe coronary AS | P value | |
| PI | 1.74 ± 0.23 | 1.73 ± 0.40 | 0.876 | 1.81 ± 0.27 | 1.87 ± 0.40 | 0.607 |
| PD | 2.95 ± 0.68 | 2.90 ± 0.91 | 0.060 | 3.20 ± 0.71 | 3.06 ± 0.69 | 0.491 |
| CI | 1.76 ± 0.24 | 1.70 ± 0.31 | 0.412 | 1.81 ± 0.29 | 1.79 ± 0.44 | 0.878 |
| CAL | 3.33 ± 1.11 | 3.77 ± 0.77 | 0.172 | 4.00 ± 1.40 | 4.04 ± 1.16 | 0.928 |
| GI | 2.27 ± 0.33 | 2.24 ± 0.29 | 0.800 | 2.35 ± 0.34 | 2.36 ± 0.32 | 0.990 |
| Number of teeth lost | 4.06 ± 0.86 | 8.62 ± 2.21* | 0.037 | 6.57 ± 1.49 | 8.04 ± 1.35 | 0.472 |
| IL-6 (pg/ml) | 3.13 ± 0.24 | 2.04 ± 0.74 | 0.420 | 3.64 ± 5.07 | 5.95 ± 1.49 | 0.742 |
| MMP-9 (ng/ml) | 549.66 ± 39.66 | 411.99 ± 82.12 | 0.154 | 611.91 ± 85.48 | 552.17 ± 95.01 | 0.656 |
| TNF-α (pg/ml) | 49.43 ± 16.94 | 23.08 ± 17.94 | 0.493 | 86.40 ± 77.55 | 41.31 ± 35.26 | 0.570 |
Continuous variables are expressed in the form mean ± SD.
*p < 0.05 vs. normal-to-mild coronary AS group.