Table 1.
Distribution of the patients at first presentation by gender, age, previous ulcer and amputation, and comorbidities.
Fig 1.
A nine-state Markov model for diabetic foot disease.
Table 2.
States 1, 3, 5, 7—diabetic foot ulcer. States 2, 4, 6—diabetic foot in remission. State 8 –bilateral major amputation. State 9 –death.
Table 3.
Estimates of the baseline transition intensities, conditional probabilities of transition, and mean times to transition.
Fig 2.
Plot of transition probabilities.
Table 4.
Relative risks (RR) of factors and their 95% confidence intervals.