Gona Bekri, Abdolreza Shaghaghi
Prevalence of Pediculus humanus capitis and associated risk factors among elementary school-aged girls in Paveh, West Iran
Journal of infection in developing countries
rising prevalence diabetes mellitus dm around world dramatically increased number people bearing complications potentially incapacitating disease one complications foot ulcers may result amputation study sets determine profiles footatrisk ulceration associated sociomedical factors dm patients study conducted bowen university teaching hospital ogbomoso southwest nigeria descriptive crosssectional study comprising 299 outpatient adults aged 18 years diabetes mellitus least 6 months duration comprehensive foot examination risk assessment tool used identify footatrisk categories participants data analysis done using statistical package social sciences spss version 20 prevalence footatrisk among participants 649 194 among 194 participants footatrisk 351 105 belonged footatrisk categories 0 378 113 category 1 161 48 category 2 110 33 category 3 factors statistically significant association footatrisk included age religion level education duration diabetes history smoking glycemic control footatrisk found alarming prevalence among participants addition level glycemic control group unacceptably poor clinicians need intensify preventive measures like foot screening health education prevent foot ulcerations may result limb amputation dm patients