Clinical and behavioral factors associated with management outcome in hospitalized patients with diabetic foot ulcer

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Table 1 Demographic, behavioral, and clinical features of diabetic foot ulcer (DFU) patients with and without amputation

P-value	Nonamputation (n = 62)	Amputation (n = 32)	Variable
0.12	43/19	17/15	Sex (male/female) (no.)
0.000	56.16 (10.8)	68.15 (8.3)	Age (mean [SD] years)
0.009	46.8	78.1	Low educational level (%)
0.01	16.1	46.9	Unmarried (%)
0.000	1.5 (1)	3.46 (1.8)	Recurrent DFU (mean [SD] years)
0.03	46.8	25	Overweight (%)
0.36	48.4	46.9	Current smoker (%)
0.008	5.34 (3.1)	9.21 (6)	Duration of diabetes (mean [SD] years)
0.001	75.8	100	Complications of diabetes (1+) (%)
0.32	11.3	18.8	Treatment intensity (insulin therapy) (%)
0.000	8.7 (2.1)	11.82 (2.0)	HbA1c (mean [SD] years)
0.000	263.5 (79)	336.96 (64)	Blood sugar (mean [SD] years)
0.000	51.9	77.1	Wagner classification ≥3 (%)

Table 2 Comparison of diabetic complications and comorbidities between groups with and without amputation

P-value	Nonamputation (n = 62)	Amputation (n = 32)	Variables (%)
0.000	19.4	68.8	Retinopathy
0.002	35.5	68.8	Hypertension
0.000	8.1	50	Nephropathy
0.42	17	25	Dyslipidemia
0.47	15.6	12.9

Figure 1 Receiver operating characteristics (ROC) curve showing HbA_1c and blood sugar (BS) in predicting overall amputation.