Diabetes mellitus showed a borderline significant relationship with tooth loss.
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Tooth Loss and Cardiovascular Risk Burden in Myocardial Infarction Patients.
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Diabetes mellitus and number of affected arteries showed trends toward positive associations but did not reach statistical significance.
Logistic regression revealed more than double the odds of high tooth loss among diabetic patients (OR 2.20, 95% CI 0.99–4.92, p = 0.054), though this result narrowly missed statistical significance.