February 01, 2007
Losing a Leg Because You're Poor?
Reuters Health is covering an article that appears in the January issue of the Journal of Vascular Surgery.
Patients from poor neighborhoods in the low-income bracket, non-white patients, and patients without commercial insurance, and those on Medicare or Medicaid, had significantly higher rates of amputation than those who were more affluent, the team reports in the Journal of Vascular Surgery.
"Of particular interest is the Medicaid patients who were on average younger than private and Medicare insurance recipients," Eslami noted. "This group still had a very high amputation rate."