Salivary Interleukin-6 - A pioneering marker for correlating diabetes and chronic periodontitis: A comparative study | Zendy

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Salivary Interleukin-6 - A pioneering marker for correlating diabetes and chronic periodontitis: A comparative study

Author(s) -

Anitha Balaji,

SC Chandrasekaran,

Dhivya Subramanium,

AB Fernz

Publication year - 2017

Publication title -

indian journal of dental research

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.277

H-Index - 43

eISSN - 1998-3603

pISSN - 0970-9290

DOI - 10.4103/ijdr.ijdr_167_14

Subject(s) - periodontitis , saliva , chronic periodontitis , diabetes mellitus , medicine , biomarker , gastroenterology , interleukin , immunology , endocrinology , cytokine , biology , biochemistry

Periodontitis is a chronic inflammatory disease which is multifactorial. Diabetes mellitus (DM) is one of the major systemic factors to influence the severity of chronic periodontitis. Numerous inflammatory markers are produced in the course of the disease which is secreted in saliva too. This study evaluates the salivary concentrations of interleukin-6 (IL-6) in periodontitis patients with type 2 diabetes.

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