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Screening for peripheral neuropathy and peripheral arterial disease in persons with diabetes mellitus in a Nigerian University Teaching Hospital

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Research Notes, October 2015
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Title
Screening for peripheral neuropathy and peripheral arterial disease in persons with diabetes mellitus in a Nigerian University Teaching Hospital
Published in
BMC Research Notes, October 2015
DOI 10.1186/s13104-015-1423-2
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Anthonia O. Ogbera, Olufunmilayo Adeleye, Babatunde Solagberu, Alfred Azenabor

Abstract

Identifying the risk factors for diabetes mellitus related foot ulceration would save more limbs from amputation. This report focuses on the determining the burden of peripheral arterial disease and neuropathy in persons with diabetes mellitus (DM). This is a descriptive study carried out in the Diabetic Clinic of the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital in patients with DM who had no past/present history of foot ulceration. Biothesiometry was employed and ankle brachial pressure indices were measured to evaluate for neuropathy and peripheral arterial disease (PAD) respectively. A total of 225 persons living with DM who met inclusion criteria were recruited consecutively over a 3 months period. Age range was 28-87 years with the mean [61.4 (10.8)] and median (63) years respectively. Patients symptomatic for neuropathy and PAD were 37 and 40 % respectively of the study population. An older age of >60 years and poor glycaemic control were potential predictors of neuropathy. Neuropathy and PAD occurred commonly in the seventh decade of life. Given the fairly high proportions of neuropathy and PAD in our patients with DM, we recommend that they be routinely examined in persons with DM.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 135 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Postgraduate 28 21%
Researcher 15 11%
Student > Master 13 10%
Student > Bachelor 13 10%
Other 9 7%
Other 22 16%
Unknown 35 26%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 62 46%
Nursing and Health Professions 19 14%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 2 1%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 2 1%
Sports and Recreations 2 1%
Other 9 7%
Unknown 39 29%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 05 October 2015.
All research outputs
#6,425,896
of 22,829,683 outputs
Outputs from BMC Research Notes
#1,000
of 4,263 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#78,870
of 277,201 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Research Notes
#33
of 189 outputs
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