Incidence of lower extremity amputations in the diabetic compared with the non-diabetic population: A systematic review

Maria Narres; Tatjana Kvitkina; Heiner Claessen; Sigrid Droste; Björn Schuster; Stephan Morbach; Gerhard Rümenapf; Kristien Van Acker; Andrea Icks

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0182081

Incidence of lower extremity amputations in the diabetic compared with the non-diabetic population: A systematic review

PLoS One. 2017 Aug 28;12(8):e0182081. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0182081. eCollection 2017.

Authors

Maria Narres^{1

2

3}, Tatjana Kvitkina^{1

2

3}, Heiner Claessen^{1

3}, Sigrid Droste², Björn Schuster², Stephan Morbach^{2

4}, Gerhard Rümenapf⁵, Kristien Van Acker⁶, Andrea Icks^{1

2

3}

Affiliations

¹ Institute for Health Services Research and Health Economics, German Diabetes Center, Düsseldorf, Germany.
² Institute for Health Services Research and Health Economics, Centre for Health and Society, Faculty of Medicine, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany.
³ German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), Munich-Neuherberg, Germany.
⁴ Department of Diabetology and Angiology, Virgin Mary Hospital Soest, Germany.
⁵ Clinic for Vascular Surgery, Deaconess Foundation Hospital, Upper Rhine Vascular Center Speyer-Mannheim, Speyer, Germany.
⁶ Centre Santé des Fagnes, Chimay, Belgium.

Abstract

PROSPERO CRD4201501780.

Publication types

Review
Systematic Review

MeSH terms

Amputation, Surgical / statistics & numerical data*
Diabetes Mellitus / surgery*
Diabetic Foot / surgery*
Humans
Lower Extremity / surgery*

Grants and funding

This work is supported by the Ministry of Science and Research of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia (MIWF NRW), the German Federal Ministry of Health (BMG) funding code ZMV I 5-2515VCK005 and in part by a grant from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) to the German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD e.V.) as well as by the German Diabetes Foundation: grant no. 370/04/15. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.