Relationship between periodontitis and microangiopathy in type 2 diabetes mellitus: a meta‐analysis

Objective Whether periodontitis increases the risk of diabetic microangiopathy remains controversial. The present meta‐analysis aims to investigate the relationship between periodontitis and diabetic microangiopathy in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus. Methods PubMed, EMBASE, Web of Science, the Cochrane Library, CNKI, and WanFang data were searched without language restrictions. The methodological quality of the studies included was...