Measurement of Salivary Resistin Level in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes

Table 4

Correlation coefficients between serum and salivary resistin levels and anthropometric features values.

	Number	Age	Body mass index	Waist circumference	Systolic pressure	Diastolic pressure	Fasting plasma glucose	Fasting insulin	HbA1c	HOMA-IR
T2DM	38
Serum resistin		0.11	0.48*	0.01	0.41*	0.18	0.08	0.13	0.22*	0.09
Salivary resistin		0.08	0.39*	0.13	0.12	0.07	0.14	0.09	0.31*	0.20*
Control	35
Serum resistin		0.09	0.38*	0.09	0.18	0.35*	0.37*	0.21	0.13	0.34*
Salivary resistin		0.12	0.17	0.07	0.01	0.21	0.28*	0.13	0.17	0.19
Merged group	73
Serum resistin		0.07	0.29*	0.11	0.24*	0.30*	0.22	0.41*	0.13	0.35*
Salivary resistin		0.07	0.33*	0.08	0.22*	0.19	0.30*	0.02	0.06	0.29*

^∗𝑃<0.05.