PMID: 11930474Apr 5, 2002Paper

The effect of age, gender, risk level and glycosylated hemoglobin in predicting foot amputation in HMO patients with diabetes

Journal of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners
S A WattsW Dahar

Abstract

To determine if age, gender, risk level and glucosylated hemoglobin could predict foot amputations in HMO patients with diabetes. A retrospective chart review of a non-random sample of 27 patients with amputation and 110 randomly selected patients without amputation during the same time period. Chi-square, t-tests and logistic regression were used to analyze the data. There was no significant difference between the group with amputation and those without amputation in age or gender. However, there was a significant difference between the two groups in the risk stratification (p = .005) and glycosylated hemoglobin levels (p = .058). Nurse practitioners can effectively screen for amputation risk factors and closely monitor glycosylated hemoglobin levels of diabetic patients to reduce the incidence of vascular complications and related lower extremity amputation.

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