Prevalence and quality of temporomandibular disorders, chronic pain and psychological distress in patients with classical and hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome: an exploratory study

Table 1 General participants information

	n (%)	Mean (SD)	Range	Diagnosis of TMD	no Diagnosis of TMD	p-value
Age¹		38.8 (SD:11.0)	18–65	39.8 (SD:10.6)	37.9 (SD:11.3)	0.134
Sex (%)						0.642
men	16 (6.2)			6 (5.0%)	10 (7.2%)
women	238 (91.9)			111 (92.5%)	127 (91.4%)
diverse	5 (1.9)			3 (2.5%)	2 (1.4%)
Subtype						0.011
hypermobile EDS	230 (88.8)			113 (49.1%²)	117 (50.9%²)
classical EDS	29 (11.2)			7 (24.1%²)	22 (75.9%²)
Country (%)						0.058
Germany	237 (91.5)			115 (95.8%)	122 (87.8%)
Austria	7 (2.7)			1 (0.8%)	6 (4.3%)
Switzerland	15 (5.8)			4 (3.3%)	11 (0.7%)
Time of diagnosis¹		34.2 (SD:12.1)	1–61	36.4 (SD:11.5)	32.0 (SD:12.6)	0.223
Time between first symptoms and diagnosis¹		22.2 (SD:12.5)	0–55	24.6 (SD:11.8)	20.1 (SD:12.8)	0.119

General information about the participants concerning their temporomandibular disorder (TMD) diagnosis. ¹ – in years; ² – percentages are given for the number of participants concerning the subtype. P-values were calculated using a chi-square test for categorical variables or a Mann-Whitney U test for continuous variables to show whether there was an association between each variable and TMD diagnosis

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