| Objective To analyse the correlation between ankle-brachial index (ABI) and peripheral arterial disease(PAD)in patients with type 2 diabetes and discuss the risk factors of PAD and analyse the reliability of ABI as a simple evaluation index. Methods ABI was examined in the patients admitted to the Endocrinology Department of the Third People's Hospital of Hefei City between January and April in 2015. The patients with ABI 0.9~1.3 were set as normal ABI group and those with an ABI below 0.9 as the low ABI group. Variables between these two groupswere compared, such as the course of diabetes, age, blood pressure, blood glucose, blood fat, serum creatinine and urinary albumin/creatinine, and the relativity of ABI to these factors was analyzed. Results The age, course of diabetes, 2-hour postprandial blood glucose, glycosylated hemoglobin, triglyceride, systolic blood pressure, urinary albumin/creatinine, hypersensitive C-reactive protein of low ABI group were higher than those of normal ABI group (P<0.05).Age(OR=1.21, 95%CI:1.08-1.13),low density lipoprotein cholesterin (OR=1.43, 95%CI:1.27-1.53),urinary albumin/creatinine(OR=1.29, 95%CI:1.01-2.33)were the risk factors of low ABI. Conclusion Low ABI is associated with multiple factors that lead to atherosclerosis, thus it could be used as a simple and reliable index for diabetes PAD prediction. |
