Table 6.

Analysis of parameters for general and diabetes-specific quality of life

	T1DM with periodontitis	T1DM without periodontitis	T2DM with periodontitis	T2DM without periodontitis
Patients with CPI (n = 461)
PAID	6 [2;9]	6 [2;8]	4 [2;8]	4 [1;7]
MLQ	3 [1;10]	7 [1, 15]	7 [2;22]	5 [1;16]
Patients with AAP risk score (n = 1180)
PAID	6 [1;10] **	4 [2;6] **	4 [1;7]	4 [1;8]
MLQ	5 [3;14] **	2 [0;8] **	6 [1;19] ***	3 [0;12] ***

AAP risk score by the American Association of Periodontology; CPI Community Parodontal Index; clinically diagnosed periodontitis: CPI > 2; assumed periodontitis: modified AAP risk score > 21 points; MLQ: Oral health-related quality of life (Mund-gesundheitsbezoge-ne Lebensqualität); PAID Problem areas in diabetes; median and IQR are given. Mann–Whitney U tests comparing periodontitis vs. non-periodontitis cases are significant with * p < 0.05; ** p < 0.01; *** p < 0,001