CMAJ • January 31, 2006; 174 (3). doi:10.1503/cmaj.050680.
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Prevalence of lower-extremity amputation among patients with diabetes mellitus: Is height a factor?

Chin-Hsiao Tseng

From the Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital; the National Taiwan University College of Medicine; the School of Public Health, Taipei Medical University; and the Division of Environmental Health and Occupational Medicine, National Health Research Institutes, Taipei, Taiwan


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  		Fig. 1: Actual and adjusted prevalences of lower-extremity amputation by height quartile among patients with diabetes mellitus 18 years and older. Adjusted variables were age, sex, type of diabetes, duration of diabetes, smoking status and hypertension. Error bars = standard errors. *Values are mean heights for the respective quartiles.

 

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  		Fig. 2: Multivariate-adjusted odds ratios (ORs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) for lower-extremity amputation among all 93 116 diabetic patients (top panel) and among the 9295 patients for whom data of fasting plasma glucose (FPG) levels and history of dyslipidemia were available (bottom panel). *p < 0.01; {dagger}p < 0.05.