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IF DIABETES WERE A COUNTRY,
IT WOULD BE THE
4
TH
LARGEST
IN THE WORLD.
- IDF / Diabetesatlas.org
5. INDONESIA
1. CHINA
2. INDIA
3. USA
4. DIABETES
EVERY
20
SECONDS,
a
limb
is
lost
diabetes.
DFCon11,
Bakker
(after
Boulton),
DFCon.com
Boulton,
The
Lancet
(cover),
Nov.
2005
-
The number of
people with
EVERY SINGLE NATION.
People with a history
of a diabetic foot ulcer
have a 40% greater
10 year mortality than
people with diabetes
alone.
- Iversen, et al, Diabetes Care, 2009 - Weck, et al, Cardiovascular Diabetology, 2013
- International Diabetes Federation / Diabetesatlas.org
Instituting a structured diabetic foot
program can yield a
75% reduction in
amputation rates
and a near four-fold
reduction in inpatient mortality.
Up to 25% of those with diabetes will develop a foot ulcer.
- Singh, Armstrong, Lipsky. J American Medical Associaton 2005
