Diabetic foot disease: impact of ulcer location on ulcer healing

Kristy M. Pickwell; Volkert D. Siersma; Marleen Kars; Per E. Holstein; Nicolaas C. Schaper

doi:10.1002/dmrr.2400

Diabetic foot disease: impact of ulcer location on ulcer healing

Kristy M. Pickwell^*, Volkert D. Siersma, Marleen Kars, Per E. Holstein, Nicolaas C. Schaper

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Abstract

Background Healing of heel ulcers in patients with diabetes is considered to be poor, but there is relatively little information on the influence of ulcer location on ulcer healing. Methods The influence of ulcer location on time to healing of diabetic foot ulcers was analysed by multivariate Cox regression analysis for 1000 patients included in the Eurodiale study, a prospective cohort study of patients with diabetic foot disease. Results Median time to healing was 147days for toe ulcers [(95% confidence interval (CI) 135-159days)], 188days for midfoot ulcers (95% CI 158-218days) and 237days for heel ulcers (95% CI 205-269days) (p

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	377-383
Journal	Diabetes-metabolism Research and Reviews
Volume	29
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/dmrr.2400
Publication status	Published - Jul 2013

Keywords

diabetic foot ulcer
wound healing
ulcer location
time to healing
outcome

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