Background: The care necessary to prevent amputation from diabetes and peripheral artery
disease (PAD) remains disjointed in many jurisdictions. To help inform integrated regional …

Dear Editor, Leg amputation is a devastating complication of diabetes and peripheral arterial
disease (PAD). While most diabetic and many PAD-related amputations are preventable …

OBJECTIVE: Because patient-level differences do not fully explain the variation in lower
extremity amputation rates across the United States, we hypothesized that variation in …

Objective Amputation is a devastating but preventable complication of diabetes and
peripheral arterial disease (PAD). Multiple studies have focused on disparities in amputation …

Lower extremity amputation due to peripheral artery disease (PAD) and diabetes (DM) is a
life-altering event that identifies disparities in access to healthcare and management of …

Background Lower extremity amputation rates associated with peripheral arterial disease in
Texas are high and vary disproportionately among different populations. We sought to …

ABSTRACT OBJECTIVE: Lower-extremity amputation rate is often used as an indicator of
the quality of diabetes care. This study provides a long-term perspective on amputation in …

Aims: To determine the prevalence of amputation and revascularisation among diabetics
and non-diabetics between 2003 and 2013. Methods: Retrospective analysis of English …

Disparities in rates of peripheral diabetic neuropathy and lower extremity amputation exist in
the United States. To investigate the factors linked to this disparity, we performed a …

Background: Peripheral arterial disease is an important vascular complication of diabetes
that may lead to lower-extremity amputation. We aimed to compare the treatment and …