RESUMO
The aim of the study was to seek the association between hypomagnesaemia and foot ulcers in type II diabetes mellitus and to verify the effect of age, sex, grades of ulcer, duration of ulcers and duration of diabetes and presence of hypomagnesaemia in the association with type 2 diabetes mellitus. Cross sectional study. This study was carried out in the indoor, setting of Medical Department Peoples Medical College Hospital Nawabshah from September 2009 to May 2010. The subjects were divided into two groups. One was with Grade-I Diabetic foot ulcer and the other with Grade-II diabetic foot ulcers with type II diabetes mellitus. Both the groups contained 50 subjects each and were selected according to the inclusion and exclusion criteria. After a brief interview of 100 patients regarding age, sex, duration of Type II diabetes mellitus, duration of foot ulcer and grade of foot ulcer, both groups underwent fasting serum Magnesium level and categorized on the basis of foot ulcers Grade-I and Grade-II according to Wagner's classification of diabetic foot ulcers. Chi - square test was applied to see the association and then odds ratio was calculated to check the strength of association. Out of 100 Type II diabetic patients, hypomagnesaemia was detected in 20 with grade I diabetic foot ulcer and in 37 patients with grade II diabetic foot ulcers having chi-square value of 13.071 and significance of 0.000 with likelihood ratio 13.554. There is strong association between hypomagnesaemia in foot ulcers with Type II diabetes mellitus