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HealthDay Reports: Older Age

Amputation Risk Up for Black, Rural Residents With Diabetic Foot Ulcers

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Risk for major leg amputation or death increased compared with overall cohort of adult Medicare patients hospitalized with diabetic foot ulcers

AAOS: Patients Mostly Satisfied After Flatfoot Reconstruction

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Postoperatively, physical activities less difficult for 50 percent, equally difficult for 33 percent, and more difficult for 17 percent

Every Infant With Clubfoot Should Have Access to Ponseti Method

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Treatment is particularly successful when trained practitioner, primary care physician, family work together

Undiagnosed A-Fib Detected During Diabetic Foot Exam

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One in six patients with diabetes had previously undiagnosed atrial fibrillation with similar rates in men and women

Deprivation Tied to Foot Disease With New Type 2 Diabetes

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Risks include foot ulcer, lower-limb amputation, peripheral neuropathy, peripheral vascular disease, and gangrene

Hospitalization for Diabetes Foot Ulcers Up

Hospitalizations for Diabetic Foot Ulcer Up in Australia

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Risk factors include peripheral sensory neuropathy, peripheral arterial disease, nephropathy, and poor glycemic control

Spinal Cord Stimulation May Ease Diabetic Nerve Pain

Peripheral Neuropathy Linked to Mortality in U.S. Population

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PN linked to all-cause, cardiovascular mortality in adults with diabetes; all-cause mortality in those without diabetes

Adjuvant cyclical pressure topical wound oxygen therapy

Topical Wound Oxygen Therapy Helps Heal Diabetic Foot Ulcers

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Adjuvant cyclical pressure TWO2 therapy better than sham control therapy for chronic diabetic foot ulcers
Hot pavement poses a burn risk

Hot Pavement Can Burn Feet in Seconds

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More education needed to warn of burn risk from hot pavement, particularly as temps exceed 100
There does not appear to be a clinically meaningful association between baseline or prospective hemoglobin A1c and wound healing in patients with diabetic foot ulcers

Hemoglobin A1c Levels Not Tied to Wound Outcomes

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Findings among long-term study of patients with diabetic foot ulcers