People with diabetic foot ulcers (DFUs) who live in areas with a high level of deprivation may be more likely to require major amputation than those living in less deprived areas, suggest findings from a French cohort study … Jean-Baptiste Bonnet (Hôpital Lapeyronie, Montpellier) used the French National Health Data System to evaluate amputation data from 15,507 individuals in the Languedoc-Roussillon administrative area with any type of diabetes who experienced a first DFU between 2015 and 2017. These people were aged an average of 70 years, 55% were men, and 20% required hospitalization … read more