›› 2015, Vol. 35 ›› Issue (8): 673-676.

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Clinical study on the correlation between periodontal disease and diabetic foot

  

  • Received:2014-02-14 Revised:2014-07-14 Online:2015-08-28 Published:2015-08-14

Abstract: Objective To investigate whether the risk of diabetic foot is correlated with periodontal disease (PD).Methods 110 patients with diabetic foot and periodontal disease were investigated and another 102 nondiabetic patients with periodontal disease from the project within the hospital dental clinic of similar condition were randomly selected as the control group.Logistic regression model was used to adjust potential confounding factors.As for the PD risk factors involved in this study such as age,duration of diabetes,patients with oral health and education level,etc,Windows SPSS 12.0 was employed for statistical analysis.Results Age,diabetes duration,oral health care and education level were of statistical significance.After the adjustment of gender,age,duration of diabetes,oral health care and education,PD and dentition defect were independently related with diabetic foot.Conclusions The risk of diabetic foot is strongly associated with periodontal disease.

Key words: periodontal disease, diabetic foot, correlation study

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