Prediction of Diabetic Foot Ulcer Occurrence Using Commonly Available Clinical Information

In their article, Boyko et al. (1) describe a foot ulcer prediction tool that will be useful in practice, as it is based on simple clinical criteria. The tool is well validated but limited by the patients examined, who were predominantly male (98%), mainly with type 2 diabetes, and were recruited from a hospital diabetes clinic. We have already addressed these problems in a …