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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Parts of Sussex have some of the highest rates of diabetes-related amputations in the country.
Figures show 114 diabetics living in the Eastbourne, Hailsham and Seaford Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) area had their foot or part of their leg amputated in the last three years.
This is a rate of 4.3 per 1,000 of the diabetic population and significantly higher than the national average of 2.6.
The information, published by national charity Diabetes UK, also shows the rate has risen slightly from 4.2 last year.
It also reveals a postcode lottery across Sussex.
http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/1117...putations_higher_than_average_in_East_Sussex/
Figures show 114 diabetics living in the Eastbourne, Hailsham and Seaford Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) area had their foot or part of their leg amputated in the last three years.
This is a rate of 4.3 per 1,000 of the diabetic population and significantly higher than the national average of 2.6.
The information, published by national charity Diabetes UK, also shows the rate has risen slightly from 4.2 last year.
It also reveals a postcode lottery across Sussex.
http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/1117...putations_higher_than_average_in_East_Sussex/