Prevalence of risk factors for XXXX in a Chinese tertiary hospital.

@entity1 @entity8 @entity5109 @entity101 @entity6 @entity3657 @entity989 @entity1066 @entity1897 @entity4553 @entity2412
AIMS: To determine the prevalency of risk factors for @entity2412 in @entity6 @entity1 free of active @entity1066 in a hospital setting and to investigate the knowledge of foot care of the @entity1 . METHODS: A retrospective study was conducted on a cohort of 296 @entity1 with @entity6 hospitalized in a tertiary hospital. A convenience sampling was adopted to recruit subjects during 2012/2013. All completed an interviewer-administered questionnaire and underwent medical assessment including foot examination and assessment of presence of @entity1897 ( @entity1897 ) and @entity3657 (PVD). The @entity1 were assigned to a foot risk category which was developed by the International Working Group on the @entity6 (IWGDF). RESULTS: 296 inpatients were evaluated. @entity5109 was noticed in 124 @entity1 (42%), @entity4553 was the most prevalent abnormality, found in 65% of @entity1 . Prevalency of @entity101 , @entity8 and @entity989 were 66.2%, 57.1%, 48.3% and 44.9% respectively. 37 (12.5%) @entity1 had a history of @entity1066 (n = 33) and/or toe amputation (n = 4). According to the classification system of the IWGDF, 35.1% of @entity1 were considered as having low-risk by the modified IWGDF classification (group 0), and 49% of the study population were at high risk for pedal @entity1066 (group 2 and 3). There was a clear trend between the increasing severity of the staging and HbA1c, duration of @entity6 , prevalence of @entity101 , @entity8 and @entity989 and absent of physical activity. The mean knowledge score of foot care was 21.21  3.84. CONCLUSION: The risk factors for foot @entity1066 and lack of fool care knowledge was rather common in a hospital-based @entity6 population, emphasizing the importance of implementing simple and affordable screening tools and methods to identify high-risk @entity1 and providing foot care education for them.
