Table 2.
Clinical variables stratified by smoking habits, gender and diabetes.
| All Patients n = 120 |
Non-Diabetic Patients n = 93 |
Diabetic Patients n = 27 | p Value | Non Smoker n = 87 |
Smoker n = 33 |
p Value | Female n = 53 |
Male n = 67 |
p Value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age | 63.3 ± 15.8 | 61.0 ± 16.7 | 71.2 ± 9.0 | 0.003 | 66.9 ± 14.1 | 53.7 ± 16.3 | <0.001 | - | - | - |
| Sex (male) | 67 (55.8) | 51 (54.8) | 16 (59.3) | ns | 44 (50.5) | 23 (69.7) | ns | - | - | - |
| Education level | - | - | - | 0.003 | - | - | ns | - | - | ns |
| Elementary school | 31 (25.8) | 19 (20.4) | 12 (44.4) | - | 27 (31.0) | 4 (12.1) | - | 16 (30.2) | 15 (22.4) | - |
| Middle school | 35 (29.2) | 24 (25.8) | 11 (40.7) | - | 24 (27.6) | 11 (33.3) | - | 11 (20.7) | 24 (35.8) | - |
| High school | 41 (34.2) | 38 (40.9) | 3 (11.1) | - | 28 (32.2) | 13 (39.4) | - | 19 (35.8) | 22 (32.8) | - |
| Third level education | 13 (10.8) | 12 (12.9) | 1 (3.7) | - | 8 (9.2) | 5 (15.1) | - | 7 (13.2) | 6 (8.9) | - |
| Previously recorded extractions | 115 (95.8) | 88 (94.6) | 27 (100) | ns | 83 (95.4) | 32 (97.0) | ns | 49 (92.4) | 66 (98.5) | ns |
| N° of teeth before procedures | 21.5 ± 7.5 | 22.5 ± 7.4 | 18.0 ± 6.8 | 0.005 | 21.2 ± 7.4 | 22.2 ± 7.6 | ns | 22.0 ± 7.2 | 21.0 ± 7.7 | ns |
| N° of teeth after procedures | 16.8 ± 9.1 | 17.8 ± 9.4 | 13.3 ± 7.15 | 0.02 | 14.6 ± 8.6 | 16.5 ± 10.3 | ns | 19.0 ± 8.4 | 15.1 ± 9.3 | 0.02 |
| Teeth extracted per patient | 4.6 ± 4.7 | 4.6 ± 5.1 | 4.7 ± 3.2 | ns | 3.8 ± 4.1 | 6.7 ± 5.6 | 0.002 | 3.0 ± 2.5 | 5.9 ± 5.6 | <0.001 |
Data expressed as “number (%)” for categorical variables and “mean ± standard deviation” for continuous variables.