Bacterial infections are associated with an increased risk of incident SDR in type 1 diabetes (British Journal of Ophthalmology)
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The Society for Vascular Surgery Wound, Ischemia, and foot Infection (WIfI) Classification Independently Predicts Wound Healing in Neuroischemic Diabetic Foot Ulcers
Among patients with DFU, the WIfI classification system predicts wound healing at 1 year in both crude and risk-adjusted analyses. This is the first study to validate the WIfI score as an independent predictor of wound healing using multivariable analysis (Journal of Vascular Surgery)
Metformin and other glucose-lowering drug initiation and rates of community-based antibiotic use and hospital-treated infections in patients with type 2 diabetes: a Danish nationwide population-based cohort study
Rates of community-based antibiotic treatment and hospitalisation for infection were high in patients receiving their first treatment for type 2 diabetes and differed with the choice of initial GLD used for pharmacotherapy (BMJ Open)
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