Estimation of Antioxidant Levels in Saliva and Serum of Chronic Periodontitis Patients with and without Ischemic Heart Disease

Table 5

Correlation between serum and salivary levels of TAC, SOD, GPx, and CAT.

Parameters	Condition
	IHD + CP	CP	IHD + H	H
TAC
Correlation coefficient	−0.399	0.203	0.261	0.374
value	0.081 (NS)	0.390 (NS)	0.266 (NS)	0.104 (NS)
SOD
Correlation coefficient	−0.487	−0.403	0.680	0.568
value	0.030	0.078 (NS)	0.001	0.009
GPx
Correlation coefficient	−0.042	−0.196	−0.341	0.467
value	0.860 (NS)	0.409 (NS)	0.141 (NS)	0.038
CAT
Correlation coefficient	−0.114	0.232	−0.026	0.475
value	0.631 (NS)	0.326 (NS)	0.912 (NS)	0.034

Spearman’s correlation test; , statistically significant; , nonsignificant (NS).