Risk factors, ethnic differences and mortality associated with lower-extremity gangrene and amputation in diabetes. The WHO Multinational Study of Vascular Disease in Diabetes.
AIMS/HYPOTHESIS: We aimed to examine geographic differences, risk factors and mortality associated with amputation. METHODS: Data from 10 of the original 14 centres of the WHO Multinational Study of Vascular Disease in Diabetes were used. This included 34.....