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. 2024 Mar;30(2):528-536.
doi: 10.1111/odi.14323. Epub 2022 Aug 16.

Prevalence of oral lichen planus in patients with diabetes mellitus: A cross-sectional study

Yutong Sun  1 , Dawei Chen  2 , Xiaoting Deng  1 , Yiming Xu  1 , Ying Wang  1 , Xuemei Qiu  1 , Peiyang Yuan  1 , Zhenyu Zhang  1 , Hao Xu  1 , Lu Jiang  1
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Prevalence of oral lichen planus in patients with diabetes mellitus: A cross-sectional study

Yutong Sun et al. Oral Dis. 2024 Mar.

Abstract

Objectives: Oral lichen planus, a chronic inflammatory immune disease, occurs in the oral mucosa. We aimed to assess the prevalence and possible influencing factors of oral lichen planus in patients with diabetes mellitus.

Subjects and methods: This cross-sectional study involved 525 patients with diabetes mellitus and 525 controls. We collected information on blood glucose level, duration of diabetes, diabetic complications, treatment methods, other systemic diseases and medication history.

Results: Oral lichen planus was significantly more prevalent in the diabetes mellitus/type 2 diabetes mellitus group than in the controls (2.3%/2.2% vs. 0.6%, p = 0.019/0.022). There was no significant association between patients with diabetes mellitus with and those without oral lichen planus in age (p = 0.195), sex (p = 0.390), blood glucose level (p = 1), duration of diabetes (p = 0.638), diabetic complications (p = 1), treatment methods (p = 0.962), other systemic diseases (p = 0.891) and medication history (p = 0.848).

Conclusions: Diabetes mellitus was associated with oral lichen planus; there was a higher prevalence of oral lichen planus in patients with diabetes mellitus/type 2 diabetes mellitus than in those without diabetes. Oral lichen planus development in patients with diabetes mellitus was not significantly associated with age, sex, blood glucose level, duration of diabetes, diabetic complications, treatment methods, other systemic diseases and medication history.

Keywords: complications; cross-sectional study; diabetes mellitus; oral lichen planus.

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