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Factors Predicting Lower Extremity Amputations in Patients with Type 1 or Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: a Population-based 7-Year Follow-up Study by H. Hämäläinen; T. Rönnemaa; J.-P. Halonen; T. Toikka is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.

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Objectives. The aim of the study was to find factors predicting lower extremity amputation in patients with type 1 or type 2 diabetes mellitus through a 7‐year follow‐up period. Design. Follow‐up study. Subjects. Altogether 733 diabetic patients, aged 10–79 years, were drawn from the national drug reimbursement register. Methods. At baseline, the patients underwent a podiatric, circulatory and neurophysiological examination. Seven years later a follow‐up study was performed based on clinical and register data. Patient data for those who died during the follow‐up were collected from hospital records and death certificates. All amputations were recorded. The patients with amputation were compared with the other patients and also, in a case‐control manner, by taking three nonamputated patients matched by sex, type of diabetes, and age for each patient with amputation. Results. The number of amputations was 25 in the sample. Compared with all patients without amputation, patients with amputation differed in altogether 24 variables concerning diabetes and its complications. Compared with the matched nonamputated patients, the amputated patients had longer duration of diabetes, lower ank

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Author

H. Hämäläinen; T. Rönnemaa; J.-P. Halonen; T. Toikka

Publisher

John Wiley and Sons; Wiley (Blackwell Publishing); Blackwell Publishing Inc.; Wiley (ISSN 0954-6820)

Published

1999

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)