When we mapped amputation rates, we found that high amputation rate ZIP codes colocalized with low income and majority Black ZIP codes (Figure 1). West Philadelphia, for example, has amputation ...

Risk of life and limb is not just a metaphor for low-income diabetics ... found that California neighborhoods with high amputation rates had a greater concentration of households below the ...

Each year in the United States, approximately 130,000 people with diabetes undergo lower extremity amputations ... that can lead to limb loss. High blood glucose damages blood vessels and nerves ...

A test developed at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus that measures both prosthetic donning time and ...

People living with diabetes have an increased risk of needing lower limb amputation. Wounds or ulcers that do not heal are the most common reason for amputation. Factors such as high blood sugar ...

“Although the incidence of ischemic amputation in Minnesota is lower than has been reported from other studies, the direct inpatient hospital charges and estimated costs are high,” the ...

“Increasing knowledge surrounding peripheral artery disease and the potential complication of lower limb amputation is vital, especially considering many people who are at high risk don’t even ...

The risk for lower limb amputations for people with diabetes increases with age and for those who smoke or exercise less. Adults with obesity may have a lower risk for amputations than those with ...

Diabetes-associated lower limb amputations are largely preventable, and they have high health system and societal costs, says the CIHI. However, its report notes that in each of the years studied ...