Too many people in the US with type 2 diabetes resort to amputation
Diabetic amputations a ‘shameful metric’ of inadequate careIn California, where doctors performed more than 82,000 diabetic amputations from 2011 to 2017, people who were black or Latino were more than twice as likely as non-Hispanic whites to undergo amputations related to diabetes, a Kaiser Health News analysis found.
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