Influence of cardiovascular risk factors on the occurrence of foot risk, prior to the complementary study with infrared thermography
Abstract
Introduction: Diabetes mellitus is a public health problem. The diabetic foot is a degeneration of the vascular structure of the feet, whose patients present neurological problems that need to be identified in the shortest possible time.
Objective: The study's objective was to analyse the influence of risk factors in the appearance of the foot at risk as complementary data to the infrared thermography study.
Method: A descriptive, cross-sectional, and observational study was proposed for a sample of 479 subjects corresponding to two groups – cases (subjects with diabetes) and control (subjects without diabetes). The cases group comprised 277 subjects, mean age 63.41 years, 138 men (49.8%) and 139 women (50.2%). The control group comprised 202 subjects, mean age 61.92 years, 99 men (49%) and 103 women (51%). Images were taken with an FLIR E60bx® camera (FLIR® Company, Boston, USA). The statistical analysis of the data was carried out using the IBM SPSS Statistics 22 statistical package.
Conclusion: It can be concluded that the study of the different risk factors is key to the diagnosis of the foot at risk. It was solidly established that age evidently conditions the risk, since advanced ages corresponded to greater BMI and waist circumference. This type of study, together with the analysis by infrared thermography, is useful for the diagnosis and prevention of compromised areas of the foot, thus avoiding the obvious triggering of the damage typical of a diabetic foot.
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