Diabetes-related lower-extremity amputations disproportionately affect blacks and Mexican Americans

Southern Medical Journal

Volumn 92, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 593-599

  Lavery, Lawrence A ^a,b   Van Houtum, William H ^a   Ashry, Hisham R ^a   Armstrong, David G ^a   Pugh, Jacqueline A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DIABETES MELLITUS; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LEG AMPUTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEGRO; RISK; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033007611     PISSN: 00384348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007611-199906000-00008     Document Type: Article

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