in the young and middle-aged adult U.S. population
We are grateful to Linda Geiss and her coworkers at CDC for their always intriguing efforts at revealing the big picture to us. These data– which certainly aren’t welcome news– are supremely important. Do they signal what we’ve posited for some time? Did the increase in the “denominator” of people with diabetes in the mid-1990s initially reduced the proportionate pool of high risk patients (and thereby reduced amputation rates)? Was it better team care? Whatever the explanation, we have yet more data on which to ruminate … read more