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Table 1 Overall and age-sex-specific annual prevalence rate of lower-extremity amputation from 2009 to 2013

From: Urban-rural disparity in lower extremities amputation in patients with diabetes after nearly two decades of universal health Insurance in Taiwan

 

Year

2009

2010

2011

2012

2013

Change %

β

P for trend

No. of patientsa

662,877

718,995

751,845

809,502

899,412

   

 Case numberb

2016

1988

1810

1578

1844

   

 Female

914

873

803

643

730

   

 Male

1102

1115

1007

935

1114

   

Prevalence rate (104)

 Overall

30.4 (29.1–31.7)

27.6 (26.4–28.9)

24.1(23–25.2)

19.5 (18.5–20.5)

20.5 (19.6–21.4)

 

−0.114

< 0.001

Female

  55–64 years

17.2 (14.8–19.5)

16.0 (13.8–18.2)

12.8 (10.9–14.6)

10.0 (8.4–11.6)

9.6 (8.1–11.1)

−44%

−0.164

< 0.001

  65–74 years

24.4 (21.7–27.2)

19.9 (17.5–22.3)

19.7 (17.3–22.1)

14.1 (12.2–16.1)

15.4 (13.5–17.4)

−37%

−0.127

< 0.001

  75–84 years

34.4 (30.4–38.3)

32.1 (28.4–35.7)

28.9 (25.4–32.3)

21.2 (18.4–24.1)

20.8 (18.2–23.4)

−39%

−0.140

< 0.001

  85 years and over

59.0 (48.1–70.0)

48.8 (39.6–58.1)

38.5 (30.3–46.8)

29.1 (22.4–35.8)

30.0 (24.0–36.0)

−49%

− 0.186

< 0.001

  All females

26.3 (24.6–28.0)

23.2 (21.7–24.8)

20.5 (19.0–21.9)

15.2 (14.1–16.4)

15.7 (14.5–16.8)

−40%

− 0.145

< 0.001

Male

 55–64 years

28.9 (25.9–31.8)

24.7 (22.1–27.3)

23.4 (21.0–25.7)

23.0 (20.7–25.2)

21.3 (19.2–23.4)

−26%

−0.068

< 0.001

 65–74 years

35.6 (32.0–39.3)

35.6 (32.0–39.2)

27.9 (24.8–31.0)

23.3 (20.6–26.0)

25.0 (22.3–27.7)

−30%

−0.113

< 0.001

 75–84 years

41.1 (36.4–45.8)

42.3 (37.7–47.0)

37.3 (32.9–41.7)

25.7 (22.1–29.3)

32.9 (29.0–36.7)

−20%

−0.091

< 0.001

 85 years and over

52.0 (40.5–63.6)

34.7 (26.0–43.4)

31.8 (23.5–40.1)

32.3 (24.6–40.1)

37.3 (29.9–44.6)

−28%

−0.067

0.068

 All males

34.9 (32.9–37.0)

32.5 (30.6–34.4)

28.0 (26.3–29.8)

24.1 (22.6–25.7)

25.7 (24.2–27.2)

−26%

−0.091

< 0.001

  1. Interaction term of year and gender = 0.055 (p < 0.001)
  2. Interaction terms of year and age = − 0.011 (p = 0.139)
  3. Numbers in parentheses are 95% confidence intervals
  4. a Number of patients with diabetes b Number of patients with diabetes received amputations
  5. β is the year trend of annual prevalence rate of LEA between 2009 and 2013 estimated from Poisson regression model