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Factors associated with amputation among patients with diabetic foot ulcers in a Saudi population.
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- The incidence of lower extremity amputation and its associated risk factors in patients with diabetic foot ulcers: A meta-analysis.International wound journal · 2024Pooled it
- Effect of diabetic foot ulcers and other risk factors on the prevalence of lower extremity amputation: A meta-analysis.International wound journal · 2023Pooled it
- Efficacy of hyperbaric oxygen therapy for diabetic foot ulcer, a systematic review and meta-analysis of controlled clinical trials.Scientific reports · 2021Pooled it
- Sex difference for the risk of amputation in diabetic patients: A systematic review and meta-analysis.PloS one · 2021Pooled it
- Glycemic control and diabetic foot ulcer outcomes: A systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies.Journal of diabetes and its complications · 2020Pooled it
- Risk factors for lower extremity amputation in patients with diabetic foot ulcers: A meta-analysis.PloS one · 2020Pooled it
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- Clinical Characteristics and Outcomes of Toe Amputation Among Sudanese Diabetic Patients in Jabir Abu-Eliz Diabetic Centre at Khartoum, 2021: A Cross Sectional Study.Health science reports · 2026Article
- A Machine-Learning-Based Clinical Decision Model for Predicting Amputation Risk in Patients with Diabetic Foot Ulcers: Diagnostic Performance and Practical Implications.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Risk factors of major lower limb amputation in symptomatic peripheral artery disease: a retrospective cohort study.Future science OA · 2025Article
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- The Patterns of Acquired Upper and Lower Extremity Amputation at a Tertiary Centre in Saudi Arabia.Cureus · 2022Article
- Pattern and type of amputation and mortality rate associated with diabetic foot in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia: A retrospective Cohort Study.Annals of medicine and surgery (2012) · 2022Article
- A study of apolipoprotein A1(ApoA1) and interleukin-10(IL-10) in diabetes with foot ulcers.BioMedicine · 2022Article
- Prevalence of foot ulcers in diabetic patients in Punjab, Pakistan.Frontiers in public health · 2022Article
- Rates and risk factors for amputation in people with diabetes in Japan: a historical cohort study using a nationwide claims database.Journal of foot and ankle research · 2021Article
- Factors associated with diabetic foot among type 2 diabetes in Northern area of Saudi Arabia: a descriptive study.BMC research notes · 2019Article
- Impaired quality of life and diabetic foot disease in Saudi patients with type 2 diabetes: A cross-sectional analysis.SAGE open medicine · 2019Article
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Abstract
objectivesA prospective study was conducted at the Armed Forces Hospital, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, between January 2015 and December 2016 to identify the risk factors associated with amputation among diabetic foot ulcers DFUs patients.
resultsIn total, 82 patients were recruited. Fifty-five of the patients were males (67.07%), the mean (SD) age of the participants was 60 (± 11.4) years, the mean duration of diabetes was 8.5 (± 3.7) years, and the mean haemoglobin A1c was 4.8 (± 2.8)%. In Univariate analysis, older age and high white blood cell count (WBC) were factors associated with amputation (OR = 1.1, 95% CI = 1-1.1, P = 0.012; and OR = 383, 95% CI = 7.9-18,665, P = 0.003, respectively). On the other hand, an ischaemic ulcer was half as likely as a neuropathic ulcer to lead to amputation (OR = 0.5, 95% CI = 0.3-0.9, P = 0.036), and a higher Wagner's grade was found to be protective against amputation OR = 14.5, 95% CI = 4.3-49.4, P < 0.001. In conclusion, the current study showed that although a number of factors have been described to complicate diabetic ulcers by different researchers, none of those factors were identified in our study apart from older age and high WBC.
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