Factors associated with non-traumatic amputation in people with Diabetes Mellitus: a cross-sectional study

• Autor(a) principal: Diniz, Iraktania Vitorino
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Outros Autores: Oliveira, Patrícia Simplício de, Santos, Isabel Cristina Ramos Vieira, Matos, Suellen Duarte de Oliveira, Costa, Isabelle Katherinne Fernandes, Costa, Marta Miriam Lopes, Soares, Maria Julia Guimaraes Oliveira
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por; eng
• Título da fonte: Revista Eletrônica de Enfermagem
• Texto Completo: https://revistas.ufg.br/fen/article/view/52484

The objective of this study was to verify the factors associated with non-traumatic amputation in persons with Diabetes Mellitus. Cross-sectional study with 212 patients from a public hospital of the Paraiba state. Data collection occurred through an interview, from June 2013 to June 2014. The investigated variables were occurrence of amputations, age group, gender, origin, years of study, family income and clinical characteristics. The odds ratio and the logistic regression model were used to predict the probability of the amputation variable according to the explanatory variables. The factors associated with the occurrence of amputation were time of disease (p=0.006), search time for attendance (p=0.001), gangrene (p=0.001) and smoking (p=0.016). There was a high risk of amputation associated with: time of diabetes, search time for attendance, gangrene and smoking, calling attention to greater efforts addressed to identification of the complication and early referral to the care of greater complexity.