Diabetes-related lower-extremity amputations disproportionately affect Blacks and Mexican Americans.

1 June 1999

journal article
research article
Published by Southern Medical Association in Southern Medical Journal

Vol. 92 (6) , 593-599
https://doi.org/10.1097/00007611-199906000-00008

Abstract

We sought to identify the age-adjusted incidence of lower-extremity amputation (LEA) in Mexican Americans, blacks, and non-Hispanic whites with diabetes in south Texas.

Keywords

DIABETES
AMPUTATION
HISPANIC
TEXAS
LOWER EXTREMITY
LEA
WHITES
SOUTH
DISPROPORTIONATELY

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