(Northwestern University) A new study from Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine has found people in African American communities in Chicago have a five times higher rate of lower limb amputations than people in the predominantly white suburbs and exurbs.
This starkly contrasts to a declining overall amputation rate in northern Illinois due to improved care for diabetes and peripheral vascular disease.
Amputations are the canary in the coal mine for primary care.
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