Factors associated with higher falling risk in elderly diabetic patients with lacunar stroke

Abstract Purpose The aim of this study is to explore the factors associated with the fall risk in type 2 diabetes (T2D) patients with a lacunar stroke. Materials and methods We compiled data of 146 T2D patients (mean age 68 years), including the Morse fall scale data (MFS), nutrition score, self-care scale, laboratory data, and data from continuous glucose monitoring system (CGMS) from 2019 to 2021 in Shanghai Pudong Hospital. Thereby, we evaluated the associations between MFS and other clinical parameters. Results The analyses showed that there were significantly increased size and numbers of lacunar infarction (p 0.05). The correlational study revealed the higher score of MFS was associated with the age (r = 0.41), number of lacunar infarction (r = 0.18), nutrition score (r = 0.20), self-care score (r = − 0.43), serum creatine level (r = 0.19), eGFR (r = − 0.26) (p