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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
TORONTO ? More that 2,000 foot amputations took place in Canada in 2011-12 due to complications of diabetes, according to a new report on wounds in the Canadian health-care context.
Amplifying that already evident tragedy is the fact that many of those amputations could have been avoided, with good blood sugar control and careful foot care, said Dr. Jan Hux, chief scientific adviser for the Canadian Diabetes Association.
?It?s depressing that the number continues to be high and it?s particularly discouraging because we know that much of that could be prevented,? said Hux, who is a general internist and an adjunct scientist at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences in Toronto.
http://fftimes.com/node/262095
Amplifying that already evident tragedy is the fact that many of those amputations could have been avoided, with good blood sugar control and careful foot care, said Dr. Jan Hux, chief scientific adviser for the Canadian Diabetes Association.
?It?s depressing that the number continues to be high and it?s particularly discouraging because we know that much of that could be prevented,? said Hux, who is a general internist and an adjunct scientist at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences in Toronto.
http://fftimes.com/node/262095