Plantar Fasciitis and Cholesterol Levels

NewsBot · May 16, 2021

Members do not see these Ads. Sign Up.
Is There a Relation Between Plantar Fasciitis and Total Cholesterol Levels?
ÇatalaErdinçGençbMehmet AkifÇaçanaYiğitGüleryüzbMehmet EminErdilc
Foot and Ankle Surgery; 15 May 2021

Highlights
•Hypercholesterolemia has been shown to reduce tendon healing, causing ruptures and tendinopathies.
•The relationship between some insertional tendinopathies caused by repetitive microtrauma has been reported.
•In current study, we observed that patients with plantar fasciitis also had high cholesterol levels than control.
Click to expand...

Background
The main objective of this study is to investigate the relationship between hypercholesterolemia and Plantar Fasciitis (PF).

Methods
The study includes patients who presented to the orthopedics outpatient clinic with heel pain and were diagnosed with PF. The control group was composed of patients who came to the orthopedics outpatient clinic, with complaints other than heel pain. The two groups were compared in terms of epidemiological data, total cholesterol (TC) levels, and hypercholesterolemia prevalence. We also performed an in-group analysis of PF patients in terms of age, sex, body mass index, and duration of symptoms.

Results
There were 238 patients (mean age, 46.7) in the PF group and 240 patients (mean age, 47.9) in the control group. There was a significant difference between the PF group and the control group in TC levels (207.6 ± 47.5 versus 195.1 ± 30.1, p = 0.001). Hypercholesterolemia (TC level > 240 mg/dL) was found in 22.7% (n = 54) of the patients in the PF group whereas in the control group this rate was 10.8 % (n = 26) (p < 0.001). It was seen that the TC levels were significantly higher in patients over the age of 45 in the PF group (p = 0.038). We also found that TC levels were higher in PF patients with symptoms for longer than a year (p = 0.026).

Conclusion
Significantly higher TC levels were found in PF patients in comparison with other orthopedic outpatients. Besides, being over the age of 45 and having a duration of symptoms longer than a year is associated with higher cholesterol levels for PF patients.
Click to expand...

NewsBot · May 16, 2021

Related threads:
Cholesterol level in non-insertional Achilles tendonopathy
Lipids, adiposity and tendinopathy: is there a mechanistic link?
Statins and tendon complications
Heel pain may point to cholesterol trouble

NewsBot · Feb 15, 2022

Association of Plantar Fasciitis with Lipid Profile
and Glucose Level: A Case-Control Study
Sayyed Hadi Sayyed Hosseinian et al
Research Square

Background
Hyperlipidemia is associated with tendon disorders and biomechanical changes through tissue
deposition. In the present study, we seek the relation of plantar fasciitis (PF) with lipid profile parameters
and fasting blood sugar (FBS) levels.
Methods
In a case-control study, we enrolled 68 patients with a clinical diagnosis of PF in the case group and 136
individuals without PF in the control group. Patients’ height, weight, body mass index (BMI), FBS, lipid
profile including low-density lipoprotein (LDL), high-density lipoprotein (HDL), total cholesterol, and
triglyceride (TG) laboratory tests were also checked as the main study variables to be compared between
the two groups. The mean difference of each variable between the two case and control groups was
tested using an independent t-test. Correlation coefficient analyses were used to calculate the correlation
of patients’ BMI with lipid profile and FBS levels to evaluate the BMI variable as a confounder.
Results
Patients with PF had higher levels of total cholesterol (p=0.001), LDL (P= 0.004), and TG (P=0.02). HDL
(P=0.13) and FBS (P=0.24) levels did not differ between two groups. Odds ratio calculation showed that
patients with serum levels of LDL >130 mg/dl and total cholesterol > 200 mg/dl were 3.7 and 1.8 times
more likely to develop PF, respectively. We found no association between lipid profile parameters and BMI
in either of the two groups.
Conclusions
Our findings show higher levels of serum lipid profile parameters in patients with PF. Thus, it supports the
modification of LDL, TC, TG, and glucose levels when managing PF.
Click to expand...

NewsBot The Admin that posts the news.

NewsBot The Admin that posts the news.

NewsBot The Admin that posts the news.

Phytoterpenes for the Treatment of Plantar Fasciitis

Treating plantar fasciitis; American Physical Therapy Association guidelines

Vibration for plantar fasciitis

Do the fasciae of the soleus have a role in plantar fasciitis?

Flexor Digitorum Brevis Myositis or plantar fasciitis?

Heel pain plantar fasciitis

Is there an association between plantar fasciitis and knee osteoarthritis?

Share This Page