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Assesment of diabetic foot Risk factor among patients with diabetes attending to zagazig university hospital.

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Last updated: 22 Jan 2023

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Family Medicine

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Background: Diabetes mellitus is a public and progressively more important chronic disease worldwide. Diabetic foot disease is one of the diabetes complications which most serious and costly. Aim: Improvement of quality of life for diabetic patients and decreasing the rate of lower limb amputation. Objectives: To examin foot status clinically and to identify foot risk category of patients with diabetes. Patients and Methods: A cross sectional study was done on 266 diabetic patients at diabetic and vascular clinics in Zagazig university hospitals.The study was done by filling a questionnaire about socio-demographic data, clinical local foot examination for all diabetic patients. Results: The largest percentage of the studied patients were males(62.8%), aged less than 60 years old (62.4%), had education up to level of basic and secondary school education (72.9%), non-workers(28.6%), married(83.1%), with moderate-income (48.9%) and were current smokers(71.1%).On clinical examination of those patients, the largest percentage had abnormal skin(58.6%), absent sweating(54.9%), present fungal foot infection (53.4%), absent sensation has done by10g monofilament test, pinprick test(60.9%)and amputation (15.4%) and most of them had a very high risk of diabetic foot disease. Conclusions: Most of the patients were categorized had a high risk of diabetic foot(68%).It was significantly associated with low education status, prolonged disease duration, insulin treatment, smoking, presence of callus, fungal infections. So we need foot care education for diabetic patients for a high quality of life and improve their awareness of foot care and self-management.

DOI

10.21608/zumj.2019.15123.1361

Keywords

Foot care, Diabetic foot, diabetic foot disease

Authors

First Name

Ghada

Last Name

Aboelezz

MiddleName

Attia

Affiliation

family medicine department,faculty of medicine,zagazig university.

Email

ghadaaboelez89@gmail.com

City

Al zagazig

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First Name

Rasha

Last Name

Bahaa El Din

MiddleName

Mohammed

Affiliation

Lecturer of Family medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Zagazig University

Email

rasha_bhaa@yahoo.com

City

Zagazig

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First Name

Doaa

Last Name

Refaat

MiddleName

Omar

Affiliation

General Surgery Department, Faculty of Medicine, Zagazig University

Email

doaaomarrefaat@gmail.com

City

Al zagazig

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Volume

27

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1

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20083

Issue Date

2021-01-01

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2019-07-23

Publish Date

2021-01-01

Page Start

155

Page End

165

Print ISSN

1110-1431

Online ISSN

2357-0717

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273

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Zagazig University Medical Journal

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22 Jan 2023