J Feinglass, C Rucker-Whitaker, L Lindquist, WJ … - Journal of Vascular …, 2005 - Elsevier African Americans have a much higher risk of major (above- or below-knee) lower extremity amputation
and a lower rate of limb-preserving vascular surgery or angioplasty than white patients. This
article analyzes two potential pathways for racial disparities: primary amputation, defined ... Cited by 24 - Related articles - All 33 versions
A Linden, N Roberts - Am J Manag Care, 2005 - lindenconsulting.org Fundamentally, the objective of any thoughtful critique is to ascertain whether the reported results
represent an unbiased estimate of a treatment effect, or whether they were influenced by factors
other than the intervention. To make this determination, one must consider 2 major ... Cited by 21 - Related articles - View as HTML - All 8 versions
- ►diabetesjournals.org DC Ziemer, KJ Berkowitz, RM Panayioto, IM El- … - Diabetes Care, 2003 - Am Diabetes Assoc RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS—A total of 648 patients with type 2 diabetes were randomized
to receive instruction in either a healthy food choices meal plan (HFC) or an exchange-based
meal plan (EXCH) to compare the impact on glycemic control, weight loss, serum lipids, ... Cited by 16 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 5 versions
M Comaschi, C Coscelli, D Cucinotta, P Malini, E … - Nutrition, Metabolism and …, 2005 - Elsevier Two hundred and sixty-one clinics were involved, representing about one-third of the whole number
of DOCs in the Country. Each clinic recruited on a random basis from 50 to 100 type 2 diabetic
patients aged 35–70 years, diagnosed more than six months before the start of the study. ... Cited by 9 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 3 versions
MH Eslami, M Zayaruzny, GA Fitzgerald - Journal of Vascular Surgery, 2007 - Elsevier Data from the Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS) from 1998 to 2002 on patients from urban hospitals
with the diagnosis of lower extremity ischemia were evaluated. The population was divided into
two groups: the amputation group (AMP) and lower extremity revascularization group ... Cited by 12 - Related articles - All 22 versions
G Jean-Louis, F Zizi, LT Clark, CD Brown, … - Journal of Clinical …, 2008 - pubmedcentral.nih.gov Although obstructive sleep apnea and cardiovascular disease have common risk factors, epidemiologic
studies show that sleep apnea increases risks for cardiovascular disease independently of
individuals' demographic characteristics (ie, age, sex, and race) or risk markers (ie, ... Cited by 6 - Related articles - All 6 versions
CB Cook, C Tsui, DC Ziemer, DB Naylor, WJ Miller, JG … - Ethnicity & Disease, 2006 - ishib.org Design: Data for outpatients with a diagnosis of diabetes were abstracted from electronic
records. The number of hospitalizations from 1998 through 2001 was determined after linking
our dataset with a statewide discharge dataset. Principal diagnoses were grouped into 18 ... Cited by 3 - Related articles - View as HTML - All 5 versions
AM Wägner, J Ordóñez-Llanos, A Caixàs, R Bonet, … - Diabetes research and …, 2005 - Elsevier In order to assess the effect of glycaemic improvement on lipoprotein concentrations, we studied
73 type 2 diabetic subjects before (HbA1c 10.1 (6.2–16)%) and after (HbA1c 6.6 (3.8–8.0)%)
glycaemic improvement. Total triglyceride and cholesterol (c), LDLc, HDLc, non-HDLc ... Cited by 3 - Related articles - All 10 versions
CB Cook, JG Hentz, C Tsui, DC Ziemer, DB Naylor, WJ … - Ethnicity & Disease, 2006 - ishib.org Objective: Diabetes and cardiovascular dis- ease (CVD) are frequent causes of hospitaliza- tion
in African Americans but have rarely been studied as coexisting diagnoses. We analyzed data
from an urban African American diabetes patient population to identify variables associ- ... Cited by 1 - Related articles - View as HTML - BL Direct - All 6 versions
