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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Endocrinol.
Sec. Clinical Diabetes
Volume 15 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fendo.2024.1399924
This article is part of the Research Topic Status, Treatment, and Management of Diabetic Foot Ulcers View all 3 articles

Multifactorial Analysis of Risk Factors for Foot Ulcers in Patients with Neurovascular Complications of Diabetes

Provisionally accepted
Zibo Fan Zibo Fan 1Jinyan Huang Jinyan Huang 2Yue Liu Yue Liu 3Hao Xie Hao Xie 4Qinfeng Yang Qinfeng Yang 4Yue Liang Yue Liang 5Hong Ding Hong Ding 3*
  • 1 Department of Nursing, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China
  • 2 School of Nursing, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China
  • 3 Department of Anesthesiology, Nanfang hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China
  • 4 Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China
  • 5 Nanping First Hospital affiliated to Fujian Medical University, Nanping,FuJian Province, China

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    Diabetic foot ulcers (DFU) are a major complication associated with significant morbidity and mortality. While numerous studies have investigated risk factors for these ulcers in general, few have focused specifically on patients with with Neurovascular Complications of Diabetes.This study aimed to evaluate the prevalence and risk factors for DFU in this specific population.We analyzed data from the National Institutes of Health (NIS) database for the years 2017-2019, involving a cohort of 161,834 patients aged over 18 who were diagnosed with neurovascular complications of diabetes. Demographic characteristics (age, gender, ethnicity), hospital characteristics, comorbidities, and other relevant data were included for analysis. A binary logistic regression model was generated to identify independent risk factors for DFU.The prevalence of DFU among patients with neurovascular complications of diabetes was 29.4% during the period from 2017 to 2019. Compared to patients without DFU, those with DFU had longer hospitalization times and higher costs. The multiple regression analysis revealed that

    Keywords: Neurovascular disease, diabetes, Diabetic foot ulcer, Risk factors, Health management

    Received: 16 Mar 2024; Accepted: 23 Sep 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Fan, Huang, Liu, Xie, Yang, Liang and Ding. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Hong Ding, Department of Anesthesiology, Nanfang hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China

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