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SCORE2-Diabetes: 10-year cardiovascular risk estimation in type 2 diabetes in Europe.
previous CVD. Sex-specific competing risk-adjusted models were used including conventional risk factors (i.e. age, smoking, systolic blood pressure, total, and HDL-cholesterol), as well as diabetes-related ...
Evolution of patient characteristics and outcomes concerning diabetic foot ulcer care in Belgium between 2008 and 2020
Methods: Data were cross-sectionally collected between 2008 and 2020. Recognized MDFC s included the first 52 patients with a new DFU of Wagner 2 or higher during the audit period. Person and ulcer ...
Validation of the Flemish-Dutch diabetic foot ulcer scale short form (DFS-SF) questionnaire for diabetic foot ulcers
measuring health-related quality of life among DFU patients. It consists of 29 items in 6 subscales: leisure, physical health, dependence/daily life, negative emotions, worried about ulcers and bothered by ...
Validation of the Flemish-Dutch Lower Extremity Functional Scale (LEFS) questionnaire for diabetic foot ulcers
(Cronbach’s alpha) and measurement error (agreement). Spearman’s correlations and known-group comparisons were conducted to examine construct validity. Correlation with EQ-5D-5L was used to test criterion ...
Sex differences in diabetic foot ulcer severity and outcome in Belgium
study. Data were collected on demographics, medical history, current DFU and outcome. For data analysis, a Generalized Estimating Equation model and an adjusted Cox proportional hazards regression ...
The COVID-19 pandemic minimally interfered with delivery of care and did not result in worse outcomes of diabetic foot ulcers in Belgium
improvement initiative (IQED-Foot), a prospective cohort study was conducted among 21 DFC. 910 consecutive patients with DFU of Wagner grade ≥ 2 were included between 01/01 and 30/09/2020. Patients were divided ...
Bottom-up approach to build a ‘precision’ risk factor classification for diabetic foot ulcer healing. Proof-of-concept
classification systems, were prospectively validated, not all individual parameters were shown to have consistent associations with healing. In this study, we used a bottom-up approach relying on robust methods to ...
International comparison of glycaemic control in people with type 1 diabetes: an update and extension.
update and extend a previous cross-sectional international comparison of glycaemic control in people with type 1 diabetes. METHODS: Data were obtained for 520,392 children and adults with type 1 diabetes ...
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the presentation rate and severity of diabetic foot ulcers in Belgium
diabetic foot clinics (DFC s) were advised by the professional associations to consider all active diabetic foot problem as urgent. The aim of the study was to assess the impact of these restrictions on the ...
The COVID-19 pandemic strongly reduced the presentation rate of diabetic foot ulcers in Belgium, but the impact on severity was limited to slightly larger lesions
14/03 until 03/05/2020. Free movement was restricted and only urgent medical care was allowed. Although diabetic foot clinics (DFC) were advised to treat all foot problems as urgent, patients were ...