A fact-finding survey on pre-ulcerative lesions of foot in patients with diabetes: analysis using the Diabetes Study from the Center of Tokyo Women's Medical University 2018 (DIACET 2018).

Aims/introduction: We aimed to identify the frequency and risk factors of pre-ulcerative lesions of foot in Japanese individuals with diabetes.

Materials And Methods: This was a single-center cross-sectional observational study. We conducted a questionnaire survey of 5029 individuals with diabetes (mean age 63 years; 2185 women; 1015 individuals with type 1 diabetes and 4014 individuals with type 2 diabetes) who (a) participated in the Diabetes Study from the Center of Tokyo Women's Medical University: DIACET 2018, and (b) responded to the presence of pre-ulcerative lesions of foot.

A fact-finding survey on self-efficacy of foot care behaviour in patients with diabetes: Analysis using the Diabetes Study from the Center of Tokyo Women's Medical University 2017 (DIACET 2017).

Aim: We aimed to determine the association between self-efficacy of foot care behaviour and chronic complications in Japanese patients with diabetes.

Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional study based on a questionnaire survey of 4571 patients with type 1 and type 2 diabetes who had (a) given consent to participate in the Diabetes Study from the Center of Tokyo Women's Medical University: DIACET 2017, and (b) completed all the questions of the Japanese Version of Foot Care Confidence Scale (J-FCCS), consisting of 12 statements.

Results: A greater proportion of respondents answered that they were not confident in determining the condition of corns and/or calluses and the condition of toenails.

Creation and Transplantation of an Adipose-derived Stem Cell (ASC) Sheet in a Diabetic Wound-healing Model.

Artificial skin has achieved considerable therapeutic results in clinical practice. However, artificial skin treatments for wounds in diabetic patients with impeded blood flow or with large wounds might be prolonged. Cell-based therapies have appeared as a new technique for the treatment of diabetic ulcers, and cell-sheet engineering has improved the efficacy of cell transplantation.

Brachial-ankle pulse wave velocity, but not ankle-brachial index, predicts all-cause mortality in patients with diabetes after lower extremity amputation.

We examined whether brachial-ankle pulse wave velocity (baPWV) and ankle-brachial pressure index (ABI) are predictors for mortality in diabetic patients after lower extremity amputation. This was an observational historical cohort study of 102 Japanese diabetic patients after first non-traumatic lower extremity amputation, with a mean age of 63 years (standard deviation 12 years). The end-point was all-cause mortality.

HDL cholesterol as a predictor for the incidence of lower extremity amputation and wound-related death in patients with diabetic foot ulcers.

Objective: We examined whether HDL cholesterol levels are a predictor for an incidence of lower-extremity amputation (LEA) and wound-related death in patients with diabetic foot ulcers (DFUs).

Research Design And Methods: This was a single-center, observational, longitudinal historical cohort study of 163 Japanese ambulatory patients with DFUs, 45 woman and 118 men, with a mean (standard deviation) age of 62 (14) years. The primary composite endpoint was defined as the worst of the following outcomes for each individual; (1) minor amputation, defined as amputation below the ankle, (2) major amputation, defined as amputation above the ankle, and (3) wound-related death.