TABLE 2.

Dental and biochemical parameters of the study groups

	Control	Diabetic	p
Number of teeth, mean ± SD	26.2 (2.8)	26.8 (2.6)	0.248
PI, mean ± SD	0.4 (0.2)	0.5 (0.4)	0.014
GI, mean ± SD	0.4 (0.4)	1.1 (0.7)	<0.001
BOP, mean ± SD	29.4 (16.4)	40.5 (22.2)	0.009
PD, mean ± SD	2.5 (0.3)	2.5 (0.4)	0.381
Recession, mean ± SD	0.2 (0.2)	0.3 (0.3)	0.083
AL, mean ± SD	2.6 (0.4)	2.8 (0.6)	0.070
Number of sites PI>1, mean ± SD	13.8 (14.5)	23.9 (27.2)	0.047
Number of sites GI > 1, mean ± SD	18.8 (23.1)	59.2 (57.6)	0.001
Number of sites PD > 4 + BOP	1.5 (3.7)	2.3 (5.0)	0.336
AGEs in μg/ml, median (Q1, Q3)	5.8 (0.9, 13.1)	3.4 (0.7, 47.6)	0.905
MMP‐8 in μg/ml, median (Q1, Q3)	38.3 (15.7, 67.8)	32.1 (17.8, 55.1)	0.538
IL‐8 in pg/ml, median (Q1, Q3)	225 (150, 414)	220 (145, 331)	0.433

Note: The significance level for bold value is p < 0.05.