Amputation Risk in Patients with Diabetes Mellitus and Peripheral Artery Disease Using Statewide Data.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Conflicting data exist regarding changes in amputation rates in patients with ulcers because of diabetes mellitus (DM) and peripheral artery disease (PAD). This study focuses on how population-based amputation rates are changing in the current treatment era.

Methods

Using the California Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development Patient Discharge database, all patients who underwent major nontraumatic lower extremity (LE) amputation in 2005 through 2011 were identified. Age-adjusted population-based amputation risk was determined by year. Gender and age trends in amputation risk were estimated separately for diabetes-related amputations and PAD-related amputations, treating all California residents as the population at risk.

Results

From 2005 to 20

SUBMITTER: Humphries MD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4691363 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature