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Diabetes
Reports outline diabetes research from National Taiwan University
May 21st, 2008
In this recently published study, investigators in Taipei, Taiwan conducted a study "To determine the mortality, causes of death and associated risk factors in Taiwanese diabetic patients after lower-extremity amputation (LEA). A total of 358 diabetic patients (191 men and 167 women, aged 66.6 +/- 10.3 years) after LEA from the Taiwanese cohort of 778 cases previously recruited in the multinational Global Lower Extremity Amputation Study were followed." "Risk factors included age, sex, smoking, body mass index (BMI), hypertension, systolic (SBP) and diastolic blood pressure (DBP), and LEA level. Mortality was ascertained from the National Death Registry. With a...
Source: Fitness & Wellness Business Week (2008-05-21)
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