ArticleCMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne2019
Population-based secular trends in lower-extremity amputation for diabetes and peripheral artery disease.
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- Experiences and challenges of family caregivers of people with lower limb amputation: a qualitative study.Revista da Escola de Enfermagem da U S P · 2025Article
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- Self-care dependency assessment of person with lower limb amputation: an exploratory study.Revista latino-americana de enfermagem · 2024Article
- Interventional surgery shows efficacy for diabetic patients withperipheral vascular disease.American journal of translational research · 2024Article
- Depression in Patients with Peripheral Artery Disease: An Underdiagnosis with Increased Mortality.Annals of vascular surgery · 2023Article
- Health utility in community-dwelling adults with dysvascular lower limb loss.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2023Article
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Abstract
backgroundThe evolving clinical burden of limb loss secondary to diabetes and peripheral artery disease remains poorly characterized. We sought to examine secular trends in the rate of lower-extremity amputations related to diabetes, peripheral artery disease or both.
methodsWe included all individuals aged 40 years and older who underwent lower-extremity amputations related to diabetes or peripheral artery disease in Ontario, Canada (2005-2016). We identified patients and amputations through deterministic linkage of administrative health databases. Quarterly rates (per 100 000 individuals aged ≥ 40 yr) of any (major or minor) amputation and of major amputations alone were calculated. We used time-series analyses with exponential smoothing models to characterize secular trends and forecast 2 years forward in time.
resultsA total of 20 062 patients underwent any lower-extremity amputation, of which 12 786 (63.7%) underwent a major (above ankle) amputation. Diabetes was present in 81.8%, peripheral artery disease in 93.8%, and both diabetes and peripheral artery disease in 75.6%. The rate of any amputation initially declined from 9.88 to 8.62 per 100 000 between Q2 of 2005 and Q4 of 2010, but increased again by Q1 of 2016 to 10.0 per 100 000 (
interpretationLower-extremity amputations related to diabetes, peripheral artery disease or both have increased over the last decade. These data support renewed efforts to prevent and decrease the burden of limb loss.
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