Prevalence and Risk Factors of Diabetic Foot Problems in Taiwan: A cross-sectional survey of non-type 1 diabetic patients from a nationally representative sample

Objective: To assess the prevalence of shoulder pain and functional disability (SPFD) in Type-1 diabetic patients, and to explore its association with duration of the disease, age and gender. Methods: A cross-sectional survey was carried out on previously diagnosed patients with Type-1 diabetes mellitus between April 2019 and March 2020. Data was collected from six hospitals including three tertiary care hospitals of Islamabad and Rawalpindi. Three hundred and twenty-eight patients were recruited through convenience sampling. Shoulder Pain and Disability Index was used to determine SPFD among participants. Point-biserial and Pearson correlation coefficients were calculated to find out the correlation between the variables. Independent t-test was used to determine the difference in the mean scores between the variables. Results: The prevalence of SPFD was found 85.7%. A significant correlation was found of the SPFD with age (r = 0.332, p < 0.001), duration of the diabetes mellitus (r = 0.154, p = 0.005) and gender (rpb = 0.171, p = 0.002). A significant difference was found in SPFD mean scores between female and male patients (female patients = 43.42±22.80, male patients = 35.31±22.91, p = 0.002). Conclusion: SPFD seems prevalent among Type-1 diabetic patients. Increasing age, long history of diabetes mellitus and female gender appear the associated risk factors for the shoulder pain and disability. doi: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.37.4.3401 How to cite this:Farooq MN, Mehmood A, Amjad F, Syed J. Shoulder pain and functional disability in type 1 diabetic patients: A cross-sectional survey. Pak J Med Sci. 2021;37(4):---------. doi: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.37.4.3401 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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Dinner consumption and cardiovascular disease risk factors among a nationally representative sample of Iranian adolescents: the CASPIAN-III Study

Journal of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Research ◽

10.15171/jcvtr.2019.24 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 11 (2) ◽

pp. 138-146

Author(s):

Leila Azadbakht ◽

Fahime Akbari ◽

Mostafa Qorbani ◽

Mohammad Esmaeil Motlagh ◽

Gelayol Ardalan ◽

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Keyword(s):

Risk Factors ◽

Cardiovascular Disease ◽

Representative Sample ◽

Disease Risk ◽

Cardiovascular Disease Risk ◽

Cluster Sampling ◽

Cvd Risk Factors ◽

Cvd Risk ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Nationally Representative

Introduction: This cross-sectional study aimed to assess the association between cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors and dinner consumption in a nationally representative sample of Iranian adolescents. Methods: The present study was conducted on 5642 adolescents aged 10-18 years old in 27 provinces in Iran. The subjects were included applying by multistage random cluster sampling. Participants who ate ≥5 dinners during a week were considered as a dinner consumer. Results: Among 5642 subjects, 1412 (25%) did not consume dinner. Dinner consumers were less likely to be overweight or obese (P < 0.001) and abdominally obese (P < 0.001) as well as to have an abnormal level of HDL-C (P = 0.02). Dinner skipper youths had a higher risk for overweight or obesity (odds ratio [OR]: 1.62; 95% CI: 1.39-1.89) and abdominal obesity (OR: 1.59; 95% CI: 1.36-1.85) which remained significant after adjusting confounding factors (P <0001). No relationship was observed between dinner consumption and the rest of the CVD risk factors, neither in crude nor in adjusted models. A higher proportion of dinner-consumer adolescents had no CVD risk factors in comparison to dinner-skipper subjects (31.1% vs. 28%). Conclusion: Eating dinner might be inversely associated with some CVD risk factors among Iranian adolescents. Further prospective studies will need to prove this theory.

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The relationship between early atherosclerosis and endothelial dysfunction in type 1 diabetic patients as evidenced by measurement of carotid intima-media thickness and soluble CD146 levels: a cross sectional study

Cardiovascular Diabetology ◽

10.1186/1475-2840-12-153 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 12 (1) ◽

pp. 153 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

Sema Dogansen ◽

Aysen Helvaci ◽

Mine Adas ◽

Suzan Onal

Keyword(s):

Intima Media Thickness ◽

Carotid Intima Media Thickness ◽

Cross Sectional Study ◽

Diabetic Patients ◽

Sectional Study ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Type 1 Diabetic Patients ◽

The Relationship ◽

Early Atherosclerosis

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Risk Factors for Coronary Heart Disease in Type 1 Diabetic Patients in Europe: The EURODIAB Prospective Complications Study

Diabetes Care ◽

10.2337/diacare.27.2.530 ◽

2004 ◽

Vol 27 (2) ◽

pp. 530-537 ◽

Cited By ~ 164

Author(s):

S. S. Soedamah-Muthu ◽

N. Chaturvedi ◽

M. Toeller ◽

B. Ferriss ◽

P. Reboldi ◽

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Keyword(s):

Risk Factors ◽

Coronary Heart Disease ◽

Heart Disease ◽

Diabetic Patients ◽

Type 1 Diabetic Patients

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Relationship between sleep disturbances, lipid profile and insulin sensitivity in type 1 diabetic patients: a cross-sectional study

Archives of Endocrinology and Metabolism ◽

10.20945/2359-3997000000228 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Ana Carolina Musser Tavares de Mattos ◽

Yuri Sofiati Campos ◽

Vitória Oliveira Fiorini ◽

Yasmin Sab ◽

Bruna Landeiro Tavares ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Insulin Sensitivity ◽

Lipid Profile ◽

Sleep Disturbances ◽

Cross Sectional Study ◽

Diabetic Patients ◽

Sectional Study ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Type 1 Diabetic Patients

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The Association of Heart-Rate Variability With Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Coronary Artery Calcification: A study in type 1 diabetic patients and the general population

Diabetes Care ◽

10.2337/diacare.24.6.1108 ◽

2001 ◽

Vol 24 (6) ◽

pp. 1108-1114 ◽

Cited By ~ 70

Author(s):

H. M. Colhoun ◽

D. P. Francis ◽

M. B. Rubens ◽

S. R. Underwood ◽

J. H. Fuller

Keyword(s):

Risk Factors ◽

Heart Rate ◽

Heart Rate Variability ◽

Cardiovascular Risk ◽

Coronary Artery ◽

General Population ◽

Coronary Artery Calcification ◽

Diabetic Patients ◽

Type 1 Diabetic Patients

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Epidemiology of Diabetic Foot Ulcers and Amputations in Romania: Results of a Cross-Sectional Quality of Life Questionnaire Based Survey

Journal of Diabetes Research ◽

10.1155/2016/5439521 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 2016 ◽

pp. 1-7 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

Cosmina I. Bondor ◽

Ioan A. Veresiu ◽

Bogdan Florea ◽

Etta J. Vinik ◽

Aaron I. Vinik ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Quality Of Life ◽

Diabetic Foot ◽

High Rate ◽

Foot Ulcers ◽

Diabetic Patients ◽

Life Questionnaire ◽

Age Group ◽

Cross Sectional Survey ◽

Cross Sectional

This is a post hoc analysis of quality of life in diabetic neuropathy patients in a cross-sectional survey performed in 2012 in Romania, using the Norfolk QOL-DN in which 21,756 patients with self-reported diabetes were enrolled. This current analysis aims to expand research on the diabetic foot and to provide an update on the number of foot ulcers found in Romania. Of the 21,174 patients included in this analysis, 14.85% reported a history of foot ulcers and 3.60% reported an amputation. The percentage of neuropathy patients with foot ulcers increased with age; the lowest percentage was observed in the 20–29-year age group (6.62%) and the highest in the 80–89-year age group (17.68%). The highest number of amputations was reported in the 70–79-year age group (largest group). Compared to patients without foot ulcers, those with foot ulcers had significantly higher scores for total DN and all its subdomains translating to worse QOL (p<0.001). This analysis showed a high rate of foot ulcers and amputations in Romanian diabetic patients. It underscores the need for implementation of effective screening and educational programs.

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The Relationship between Insufficient Sleep and Self-Rated Health in a Nationally Representative Sample

Journal of Environmental and Public Health ◽

10.1155/2012/518263 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 2012 ◽

pp. 1-8 ◽

Cited By ~ 23

Author(s):

Sarah Dee Geiger ◽

Charumathi Sabanayagam ◽

Anoop Shankar

Keyword(s):

Representative Sample ◽

Positive Association ◽

Cross Sectional Survey ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Insufficient Sleep ◽

Self Rated Health ◽

Increased Risk ◽

Nationally Representative ◽

Adjusted Model ◽

The Relationship

Reduced sleep has been found to be associated with increased risk of diabetes mellitus, hypertension, cardiovascular disease (CVD), and mortality. Self-rated health (SRH) has been shown to be a predictor of CVD and mortality. However, study of the association between insufficient sleep and SRH is limited. We examined participants >18 years of age (n=377, 160) from a representative, cross-sectional survey (2008 BRFSS). Self-reported insufficient sleep in the previous 30 days was categorized into six groups. The outcome was poor SRH. We calculated odds ratios ((OR) (95% confidence interval (CI)) of increasing categories of insufficient rest/sleep, taking zero days of insufficient sleep as the referent category. We found a positive association between increasing categories of insufficient sleep and poor SRH, independent of relevant covariates. In the multivariable-adjusted model, compared to 0 days insufficient sleep, the OR (95% CI) of poor SRH was 1.03 (0.97–1.10) for 1–6 days, 1.45 (1.34–1.57) for 7–13 days, 2.12 (1.97–2.27) for 14–20 days, 2.32 (2.09–2.58) for 21–29 days, and and 2.71 (2.53–2.90) for 30 days of insufficient sleep in the prior 30 days (P-trend <0.0001). In a nationally representative sample, increasing categories of insufficient sleep were associated with poor SRH.

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