Diabetes is a chronic condition that affects millions of people worldwide. It primarily impacts how your body turns food into energy, often leading to elevated blood sugar levels. While managing ...

Diabetes, a prevalent chronic condition affecting millions globally, poses a myriad of complications when not diligently managed. Among these complications, the specter of amputation looms ominously.

The number of people with diabetes in America has been on the upswing in recent years, and so has the number of amputations related to complications from the illness. As with many other health care ...

(NEW YORK) — In operating rooms across the country, more and more diabetics are receiving amputations due to complications from type-2 diabetes. The life-altering procedures are more common among ...

Risk of recurrent major adverse limb events was lower in diabetes patients taking GLP-1 agents compared with DPP-4 inhibitors. Reduction of limb events was most significant for major amputations, ...

This is the largest and longest evaluation of the risk of death among those with diabetes and LEA. Individuals in the U.K. treated by a health care provider who participates in THIN with diabetes who ...

Diabetic foot ulcers are slow-healing and increase the risk of infections and amputation. Researchers at Karolinska ...

Nearly one-third of patients with diabetic foot ulcers undergo amputation of their toes, foot, or leg as a result. A set of factors, some of them modifiable, increase the risk for this outcome.

The latest New York City public health campaign was so determined to make it very clear that diabetes leads to amputation that it created a fictional amputee. New York City's health department ...

Lakeville, MN – A Rosemount resident is walking today thanks to early intervention and coordinated care that helped him avoid a full foot amputation. Bob, a Rosemount, Minnesota resident living with ...