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. 2021 Mar 6;21:101. doi: 10.1186/s12903-021-01453-y

Table 5.

Spearman correlation between salivary inflammatory biomarkers and serum glycated haemoglobin in type 2 diabetics

Serum HbA1c Salivary TNFα Salivary IL-6 Salivary CRP p-value
Salivary CRP r-value 0.4929* 0.0946 0.1471 1  < 0.0001
Salivary IL-6 r-value 0.1908 0.0546 1 0.1471 0.1011
Salivary TNFα r-value 0.0041 1 0.0546 0.0946 0.9724
Serum HbA1C r-value 1 0.0041 0.1908 0.4929*

Spearman correlation *p value < 0.05