Journal of Diabetes and Its Complications
Volume 25, Issue 3 , Pages 175-182 , May 2011

Depression and incident lower limb amputations in veterans with diabetes

  • Lisa H. Williams

      Affiliations

    • VA Health Services Research & Development Center of Excellence, Seattle, WA, USA
    • Dermatology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Group Health Cooperative, 125 16th Ave E, CSB-5, Seattle, WA 98112, USA.
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  • Donald R. Miller

      Affiliations

    • VA Center for Health Quality, Outcomes, and Economic Research, Bedford, MA, USA
    • Health Policy and Management, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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  • Graeme Fincke

      Affiliations

    • VA Center for Health Quality, Outcomes, and Economic Research, Bedford, MA, USA
    • Health Policy and Management, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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  • Jean-Philippe Lafrance

      Affiliations

    • VA Center for Health Quality, Outcomes, and Economic Research, Bedford, MA, USA
    • Health Policy and Management, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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  • Ruth Etzioni

      Affiliations

    • Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA
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  • Charles Maynard

      Affiliations

    • VA Health Services Research & Development Center of Excellence, Seattle, WA, USA
    • Health Services, University of Washington School of Public Health, Seattle, WA, USA
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  • Gregory J. Raugi

      Affiliations

    • VA Health Services Research & Development Center of Excellence, Seattle, WA, USA
    • Dermatology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA, USA
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  • Gayle E. Reiber

      Affiliations

    • VA Health Services Research & Development Center of Excellence, Seattle, WA, USA
    • Health Services and Epidemiology, University of Washington School of Public Health, Seattle, WA, USA

Received 4 September 2009 ,Revised 29 June 2010 ,Accepted 13 July 2010.

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☆ Disclosure. Dr. Miller has received grant funding from Sanofi Aventis, GlaxoSmithKline, and Merck within the last three years. The remaining authors have no relevant conflicts of interest to disclose.

☆☆ Parts of this study were presented at the 5th International Dermato-Epidemiology Association Congress in Nottingham, England, on 9/8/08, and at the 2009 Annual Health Services Research and Development National Meeting in Baltimore, Maryland, on 2/11/09. An abstract from this study was published in Williams LH, Miller DR, Raugi GJ, Etzioni R, Maynard C, Reiber GE. Depression and incident lower limb amputation in veterans with diabetes. Journal of Investigative Dermatology 2008 128:2553. Abstract 24.

PII: S1056-8727(10)00073-5

doi: 10.1016/j.jdiacomp.2010.07.002

Journal of Diabetes and Its Complications
Volume 25, Issue 3 , Pages 175-182 , May 2011

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