Diabetes-related lower extremity amputation rates fall significantly in South Carolina

Southern Medical Journal

Volumn 100, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 787-790

  Mountford, William K ^a,b   Soule, Jeremy B ^a   Lackland, Daniel T ^a   Lipsitz, Stuart R ^a   Colwell, John A ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Diabetes hospitalizations; Lower extremity amputations; Population trends

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY; DATA ANALYSIS; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIABETIC PATIENT; EDUCATION; FEMALE; GENDER; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; LEG AMPUTATION; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RACE; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; AMPUTATION; DIABETIC FOOT; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT EDUCATION; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SOUTH CAROLINA; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 34548434359     PISSN: 00384348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SMJ.0b013e31804b1d0f     Document Type: Article

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