Supplementary Table 7.

Correlation of platelet-to-lymphocyte ratio as a total, in health and in chronic periodontitis - posttreatment with other parameters by Karl Pearson’s correlation coefficient method

Variables	Total PLR			PLR in H			PLR in CP-PT
	r	t	P	r	t	P	r	t	P
Platelets	0.5075	5.5251	0.0001*	0.3469	2.4252	0.0196*	0.6785	6.0572	0.0001*
Lymphocytes	−0.2144	−2.0591	0.0424*	−0.3606	−2.5353	0.0150*	0.1096	0.7232	0.4735
Neutrophils	0.0277	0.2603	0.7953	−0.0822	−0.5406	0.5916	0.1870	1.2480	0.2188
PlI	−0.0605	−0.5684	0.5712	0.1468	0.9734	0.3358	−0.0921	−0.6066	0.5473
GI	−0.3379	−3.3678	0.0011*	−0.1143	−0.7546	0.4546	0.1126	0.7432	0.4614
PPD	−0.4398	−4.5939	0.0001*	-	-	-	−0.0612	−0.4023	0.6894
CAL	−0.4500	−4.7265	0.0001*	-	-	-	−0.1578	−1.0481	0.3005

*P<0.05. PlI – Plaque Index; GI – Gingival Index; PPD – Probing pocket depth; CAL – Clinical attachment loss; PLR – Platelet-to-lymphocyte ratio; BL – Baseline; PT – Posttreatment; H – Health; CP – Chronic periodontitis