Diabetes and lower-limb amputations in the community: A retrospective cohort study

Diabetes Care

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 738-743

  Morris, Andrew D ^a   Mcalpine, Ritchie ^a   Steinke, Douglas ^a   Boyle, Douglas I R ^a   Ebrahim, Abdul Rahim ^a   Vasudev, Naveen ^a   Stewart, Colin R U ^a   Jung, Roland T ^a   Leese, Graham P ^a   Macdonald, Thomas M ^a   Newton, Ray W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LEG AMPUTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMPUTATION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; DIABETIC FOOT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SCOTLAND;

EID: 0031764547     PISSN: 01495992     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/diacare.21.5.738     Document Type: Article

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