Diabetes-related lower-extremity amputation incidence and risk factors: a prospective seven-year study in Costa Rica Incidencia y factores de riesgo de la amputación de extremidades inferiores relacionada con la diabetes: estudio prospectivo de siete años en Costa Rica

• Main Authors: Adriana Laclé, Luis F. Valero-Juan
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Spanish; Portuguese
• Published: Pan American Health Organization 2012
• Subjects: Diabetes mellitus tipo 2; extremidad inferior; amputación; factores de riesgo; complicaciones de la diabetes; Costa Rica; Diabetes mellitus; type 2; lower extremity; amputation; risk factors; diabetes complications; Medicine; R; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Public aspects of medicine; RA1-1270; Arctic; Bajos; Referencia
• Online Access: https://doaj.org/article/a21c609354134441a2057135b0371400

OBJECTIVE: To analyze the incidence and determinants of lower-extremity amputation (LEA) in people with diabetes in a low-income community in Costa Rica. METHODS: Data on LEA incidence were collected during a seven-year follow-up (2001-2007) in a diabetes patient cohort (n = 572). Risk factors were...