Researchers have found in a study of 2,542 adults that diabetes is associated with a 62% higher 5-year mortality rate ...

Medicare introduced the K level system to better evaluate the prosthetic benefits for people who have had amputations of their lower limbs. Federal and state healthcare agencies may use K levels ...

A two-minute walk test is less robust in measuring the stead state metabolic expenditure in lower leg amputee patients compared to total oxygen uptake analysis and minute interval analysis over 6 ...

White's revision surgery, performed by Ayalon, went smoothly. White spent several months afterward using a wheelchair and ...

Objective The goal of the study was to determine whether complications of diabetes well-known to be associated with death such as cardiovascular disease and renal failure fully explain the higher ...

Long-term high blood sugar levels, oxidative stress ... can completely damage the nerves in your lower limbs, possibly leading to limb loss and amputation. In some cases, unmanaged diabetes ...