| Objective To determine the ankle-brachial indexes(ABI) of those patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus(T2DM),uncomplicated or complicated with cerebral infarction(CI), and to investigate the correlation between ABI and T2DM patients with CI.Methods From Jan 2016 to Jan 2017, 358 cases of T2DM inpatients hospitalized in our hospital were collected as the study objectives, and were divided into the T2DM group (n=182) and the T2DM+CI group (n=176) according to their complications with or without CI. Then the ABI scores and other related clinical data in the two groups, such as general conditions, blood glucose levels and biochemical examinations, were detectedand recorded. And the correlation analysis of their clinical characteristics and their ABI and CI were performed by means of Pearson analysis, multivariate linear regression analysis and logistic regression analysis.Results There was significant difference between the T2DM group and the T2DM+CI group in the ABI grades, and the proportions of grade B and C of the ABI grades in the T2DM+CI group were significantly higher than those in the T2DM group (P<0.05). Pearson correlation analysis showed that ABI was significantly negatively correlated with age, duration of diabetes, systolic blood pressure(SBP), fasting blood glucose and HbA1c (rvalues of-0.230, -0.152, -0.108, -0.120, -0.143, respectively; all P<0.05). Multiple linear regression analysis showed that age, duration of diabetes and SBP were independent risk factorsof ABI.Logistic regression analysis showed that the CI risk was significantly increased in those patients with mild stenosis or moderate to severe stenosis when compared to the patients with normal ABI(OR values of 1.34, 2.23, respectively;P<0.05).Conclusion The risk of cerebral infarction in T2DM patients may be closely associated with the reduction of ABI scores. |
