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HealthDay Reports: Older Age

Amputation Risk Up for Black, Rural Residents With Diabetic Foot Ulcers

Risk for major leg amputation or death increased compared with overall cohort of adult Medicare patients hospitalized with diabetic foot ulcers

AAOS: Patients Mostly Satisfied After Flatfoot Reconstruction

Postoperatively, physical activities less difficult for 50 percent, equally difficult for 33 percent, and more difficult for 17 percent

Every Infant With Clubfoot Should Have Access to Ponseti Method

Treatment is particularly successful when trained practitioner, primary care physician, family work together

Undiagnosed A-Fib Detected During Diabetic Foot Exam

One in six patients with diabetes had previously undiagnosed atrial fibrillation with similar rates in men and women

Deprivation Tied to Foot Disease With New Type 2 Diabetes

Risks include foot ulcer, lower-limb amputation, peripheral neuropathy, peripheral vascular disease, and gangrene

Hospitalization for Diabetes Foot Ulcers Up

Hospitalizations for Diabetic Foot Ulcer Up in Australia

Risk factors include peripheral sensory neuropathy, peripheral arterial disease, nephropathy, and poor glycemic control

Spinal Cord Stimulation May Ease Diabetic Nerve Pain

Peripheral Neuropathy Linked to Mortality in U.S. Population

PN linked to all-cause, cardiovascular mortality in adults with diabetes; all-cause mortality in those without diabetes

Adjuvant cyclical pressure topical wound oxygen therapy

Topical Wound Oxygen Therapy Helps Heal Diabetic Foot Ulcers

Adjuvant cyclical pressure TWO2 therapy better than sham control therapy for chronic diabetic foot ulcers
Hot pavement poses a burn risk

Hot Pavement Can Burn Feet in Seconds

More education needed to warn of burn risk from hot pavement, particularly as temps exceed 100
There does not appear to be a clinically meaningful association between baseline or prospective hemoglobin A1c and wound healing in patients with diabetic foot ulcers

Hemoglobin A1c Levels Not Tied to Wound Outcomes

Findings among long-term study of patients with diabetic foot ulcers