title: Clinical study of the oral manifestations and related factors in type 2 diabetics patients.
abstract: Diabetes Mellitus (DM) is reported with and associated to oral alterations, with conflicting results. The aim of this study was to identify the prevalence of oral soft tissue alterations in type 2 diabetes mellitus patients.
  
  
  METHODS
  Socioeconomic variables, gender, heredity, capillary glucose control and local factors (prosthesis, dry mouth sensation) were analyzed in 196 diabetic and non-diabetic patients enrolled in HIPERDIA, at 41 Health units of Natal, Brazil.
  
  
  METHODS
  A case study.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The last blood glucose mean was 177.0 mg/dl for diabetics and 89.46 mg/dl for non-diabetics. Mean capillary blood glucose was elevated in diabetics (215.95 mg/dl); it was 102.31 mg/dl in non-diabetics. The family history confirmed the heredity nature of the disease in 68.8% of diabetic patients (n = 66) (p < 0.001); salivary flow was 49% (n = 47) in diabetics, and 34% (n = 34) in non-diabetics. Candidiasis was present in 30.5% of diabetic patients (n=29) and 36% of non-diabetics (n=36). Both groups had lesions in the palate - 81.4% (n = 35) in diabetics, and 71.1% in non-diabetics (n = 27) (p = 0.68).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The alterations are not related to diabetes and are present independently of having or not type 2 Diabetes Mellitus.
authors.affiliation: Public Health Secretariat, RN State.
authors.forename: Maria Goretti de Menezes
authors.initials: MG
authors.lastname: Sousa
authors.forename: Antonio de Lisboa Lopes
authors.initials: Ade L
authors.lastname: Costa
authors.forename: Angelo Giuseppe
authors.initials: AG
authors.lastname: Roncalli
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001938:Brazil / Q000453:epidemiology; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D003924:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 / Q000150:complications* / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000235:genetics; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009059:Mouth Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D009061:Mouth Mucosa / Q000473:pathology; D015995:Prevalence; D012307:Risk Factors; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors