منابع مشابه
Diabetic Foot Prevention
OBJECTIVE To evaluate the frequency of foot prevention strategies among high-risk patients with diabetes. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS Electronic medical records were used to identify 150 patients on dialysis and 150 patients with previous foot ulceration or amputation with 30 months follow-up to determine the frequency with which patients received education, podiatry care, and therapeutic sho...
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Fifteen per cent of patients with diabetes will develop a foot ulcer in their lifetime. Foot complications (box 1) account for more hospital admissions than any other complication of diabetes, with considerable morbidity and mortality.1 People with diabetes are eight to 24 times more likely than those without diabetes to have a lower limb amputated.2 Around 85% of these amputations could be avo...
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UNLABELLED Diabetic foot complications are a significant source of morbidity and mortality. Patients who undergo recurrent admissions for the same diabetic foot problems represent a difficult subgroup to treat. From July 2007 to June 2008, there were 38 such patients who were admitted recurrently. Eighteen patients (47%) were re-admitted because of previous refusal of surgical treatment. Eighte...
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1 Social Need Diabetes is an incurable metabolic disease characterized by high blood sugar levels and afflicts an estimated 285 million people worldwide, about 5.1% of the global population. According to International Diabetes Federation (IDF), diabetes accounted for 12% of global healthcare expenditures, where the indirect social and economic cost is estimated to be at least 5 times of the dir...
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Primary prevention aims at identifying persons with risk of developing DM, so that the complications of DM can be prevented. With regards to developing Type 2DM there are many modifiable risk factors viz. overweight, corpulence, consumption of high calorie diet, fried foods, carbonated drinks, smoking, alcohol and lack of physical activity. These risk factors can be changed to active daily rout...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Singapore Medical Journal
سال: 2018
ISSN: 0037-5675
DOI: 10.11622/smedj.2018069