Rate Of Diabetic Amputations Increasing In California And Across US.

reported that the rate of diabetic amputations is increasing in California and across the US. Edward Gregg, chief of epidemiology and statistics for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, “said the trend is troublesome.” Gregg “couldn’t say definitively why rates have been increasing,” but “offered theories.” Americans are growing older, and an increasing number of Americans “are being diagnosed with diabetes.” https://www.medpagetoday.com/endocrinology/diabetes/68086