Characterization of the risk of developing diabetic foot. Provincial Service of Angiology of Matanzas. 2014-2015

Abstract

Introduction: the identification of the foot at risk of people with diabetes allows its stratification as a preliminary step for the establishment of future preventive strategies to prevent the onset of the diabetic foot ulcer.
Objective: to characterize the risk of developing diabetic foot in patients who entered the Provincial Service of Angiology and Vascular Surgery of Matanzas with this affection from September 2014 until May 2015.
Material and method: a descriptive, retrospective, cross-sectional research was carried out. The studied sample was constituted by 111 hospitalized patients diagnosed with diabetic foot in the Provincial Service of Angiology and Vascular Surgery of Matanzas, in the period from September 2014 to May 2015.
Results: in the stratification of risk, diabetic patients with risk 4 foot prevailed; the use of inadequate footwear and deficient feet care were the predominant risk factors related to the education of the diabetic patients; diabetic neuropathy was the most frequent condition in patients with compromised foot; however, podalic deformities and the absence of peripheral pulses were also present in a high percentage of patients.
Conclusions: neuropathy, the antecedent of ulcer and / or amputation, the use of inadequate footwear and deficient care of the feet represent risk to develop a diabetic foot: