Diabetes is the strongest risk factor for lower-extremity amputation in new hemodialysis patients

Diabetes Care

Volumn 27, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 2198-2203

  Speckman, Rebecca A ^a   Frankenfield, Diane L ^b   Roman, Sheila H ^b   Eggers, Paul W ^c   Bedinger, Marjorie R ^b   Rocco, Michael V ^d   McClellan, William M ^a,e  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Center for Beneficiary Choices   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES   (United States)

^d WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e Georgia Medical Care Foundation   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SERUM ALBUMIN; UREA;

ADULT; AGED; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL STUDY; COMORBIDITY; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HEMODIALYSIS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; LEG AMPUTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEW HEMODIALYSIS PATIENT; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; PATIENT; RISK FACTOR; TREATMENT FAILURE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AMPUTATION; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIABETIC FOOT; DIABETIC NEPHROPATHIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; LEG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RENAL DIALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 4444295690     PISSN: 01495992     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/diacare.27.9.2198     Document Type: Article

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