Open Access<p>Factors Related to Severity of Diabetic Foot Ulcer: A Systematic Review</p>
Author(s) -
Milad Jalilian,
Pegah Ahmadi Sarbarzeh,
Sajad Oubari
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
diabetes, metabolic syndrome and obesity
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.853
H-Index - 43
ISSN - 1178-7007
DOI - 10.2147/dmso.s256243
Subject(s) - diabetic foot ulcer , diabetic foot , medicine , foot (prosody) , gastroenterology , diabetes mellitus , endocrinology , art , literature
Diabetic foot ulcer (DFU) is one of the diabetes complications. DFU can be the cause of a high rate of amputation, health-care costs and even death, and this condition occurs in the severity status of DFU. Severity of DFU is the cause of expensive complication incidence. Understanding the factors affecting it can help preventive functions. Adequate evidence for this problem is necessary. The aim of this systematic review is to summarize evidence on severity of diabetic foot ulcer.