Disparities in Diabetes [Well.blogs.NYTimes.com]

Samantha Sangenito 8/7/144:00 AM

Diabetics who live in low-income neighborhoods are about 10 times as likely to have an amputation as those who live in affluent areas, a study reports.

Researchers used California hospital discharge data in 2009 to identify 7,793 lower-extremity amputations in 6,828 diabetic adults older than 45. They classified amputations by patients’ ZIP codes and used Census Bureau data on income levels to produce maps of poverty rates.

[For more of this story, written by Nicholad Bakalar, go to http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/08/06/disparities-in-diabetes/?ref=health]

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