Víctor Horacio Orozco-Covarrubias
Centro Universitario de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad de Guadalajara, Guadalajara, MexicoPublications
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Research
Prognostic Factors for the Development of Amputations in People with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus
Author(s): Víctor Horacio Orozco-Covarrubias*, Carlos Enrique Cabrera-Pivaral, María de los Ángeles Aguilera-Velasc, Noé Alfaro-Alfaro, Guillermo González-Gálvez and Blanca Leticia Sánchez-Michel
Introduction: The importance of this research lies in the determination of the prognostic factors that predict the clinical course of amputations in people with diabetes mellitus type 2 (DM2), the identification of these factors are of great interest for secondary and tertiary prevention of complications in DM2. Objective: To determine the main prognostic factors for the development of amputations in people with DM2. Material and Methods: A matched case-control study with a ratio of 1: 1 was carried out, with a total of 268 people diagnosed with DM2 included in the study, of whom 134 were cases (of DM2 with amputation) and 134 were controls (DM2 without amputation). The analysis of the relationship between risk factors and amputations was made through the measure of association Odds Ratio (OR) and develo.. Read More»