IGF-1 Increases with Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy and Promotes Wound Healing in Diabetic Foot Ulcers

Table 1

Clinical characteristic of the patients.

	Minimum	Maximum	Mean ± SD
Age (years)	29	83	59.19 ± 11.10
Healed group	29	83	60.20 ± 10.72
Non-healed group	38	72	54.13 ± 12.35
Duration of the wound (weeks)	3	248	23.88 ± 51.31
HbA1C (initial) (mg/100 mL)	5.1	14.7	8.13 ± 2.13
HbA1C (at the end of treatment) (mg/100 mL)	5.3	9.3	7.041 ± 1.15
		𝑁	%
Sex
Male		37	77.1
Healed		30	81.1
Non-healed		7	18.9
Female		11	22.9
Healed		10	90.9
Non-healed		1	9.1
Type of DM
Type 1 DM		1	2.08
Type 2 DM		47	97.92
Wagner classification of wounds
Grade 2		2	4.2
Grade 3		30	62.5
Grade 4		14	29.2
Grade 5		2	4.2

DM: diabetes mellitus, HbA1C: glycosylated hemoglobin, OAD: oral antidiabetic drug, HBOT: hyperbaric oxygen therapy, SD: standard deviation.