Ethnic and health correlates of diabetes-related amputations at the Texas-Mexico border Correlatos étnicos y de salud de las amputaciones relacionadas con la diabetes en la frontera entre Texas y México

• Main Authors: Nelda Mier, Marcia Ory, Dongling Zhan, Edna Villarreal, Maria Alen, Jane Bolin
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Spanish; Portuguese
• Published: Pan American Health Organization 2010
• Subjects: Amputación; salud fronteriza; diabetes mellitus tipo 2; salud de minorías; México; Texas; Estados Unidos; Amputation; border health; diabetes mellitus; type 2; minority health; Mexico; United States; Medicine; R; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Public aspects of medicine; RA1-1270; Arctic; Egreso
• Online Access: https://doaj.org/article/771e68c85c674048ae38de965399df66

OBJECTIVE: To examine the association between diabetes-related lower-extremity amputation (LEA) and ethnicity, age, source of payment, geographic location, diabetes severity, and health condition in adults with diabetes mellitus type 2 living in border and non-border counties in Texas, United States...