Abstract
<bold>Aims: </bold>THE OBJECTIVE WAS TO INVESTIGATE IF GENDER DIFFERENCES EXIST IN THE ASSOCIATIONS BETWEEN PERIODONTITIS AND TYPE 2 DIABETES. DISPROPORTIONATE DISPARITIES BY GENDER WERE FOUND TO EXIST IN RATES OF BOTH PERIODONTITIS AND DIABETES WITH RESPECT TO DEMOGRAPHICS AND BEHAVIOURAL PREDICTORS THAT CANNOT BE EXPLAINED SOLELY BY THE WELL-ESTABLISHED ASSOCIATION BETWEEN THESE TWO DISEASES.<bold>Materials and Methods: </bold>MULTIPLE DATASETS WERE EXTRACTED FROM THE NATIONAL HEALTH AND NUTRITION EXAMINATION SURVEY (NHANES) 2009-2014, WHICH USED A STRATIFIED MULTISTAGE PROBABILITY SAMPLING TO OBTAIN SAMPLES FROM ALL CIVILIAN NON-INSTITUTIONALISED PEOPLE IN THE USA. BIVARIATE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN EACH EXPLANATORY VARIABLE AND PERIODONTITIS LEVEL WERE ASSESSED WITH ODDS RATIOS (OR) AND THEIR 95% CONFIDENCE INTERVALS (CI). A SET OF WEIGHTED LOGISTIC REGRESSION MODELS WAS USED TO INVESTIGATE THE ASSOCIATION DIFFERENTIATIONS BETWEEN PERIODONTITIS AND DIABETES BY