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New users of sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitors may be more likely to undergo a lower extremity amputation when compared with users of other treatments for type 2 diabetes, such as ...
After experiencing pain in her leg, Courtney Echerd never would have guessed she'd lose her entire limb after undergoing one ...
Black type-2 diabetes patients are three times more likely to lose a leg to amputation as non-black patients, finds a new report from the Dartmouth Atlas Project. That’s partly because they’re ...
Amputation in type 1 diabetes is becoming relatively less common in Sweden. The rate has fallen by just over 40 percent over an approximately 20-year period, a University of Gothenburg study shows.
A link between payer type and lower extremity amputation rates was found in five of eight studies that included payer type as a variable, indicating a lower risk for lower extremity amputation in ...
The diabetes-related major amputation rate improved among adults in underrepresented groups in states with early expansion of Medicaid compared with non-expansion states, according to published ...
3. The possible new form of amputation was partially the result of funding from the Department of Defense. Amputation has remained mostly unchanged since the 1800s. 4. The duo has 10 procedures ...
New research to be presented at this year's Annual Meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) in Hamburg, Germany (2-6 October) shows that among people with type 1 and ...
Amid progress in diabetes treatments and technology, the rate of amputations rose 50% between 2009 and 2015. African American patients lose limbs at triple the rate of other groups.
After the proximal amputation of the extremity, patients significantly decreased number of days of hospital stay (P=0.035), ... Amputation-type hip disarticulation in patient 4.