Abstract: The Western Pacific Region (WPR) includes China with largest number of people with diabetes as well as Pacific countries with the highest prevalence rates. There are very few population-based studies on diabetic foot in the Pacific Region that is mainly from high-income countries and therefore, much of the current situation of diabetic foot is still unknown. The diabetic foot care project and the multidisciplinary approach has been set up and shown to be successful in reducing the amputation rate, especially major amputation rate in some WPR countries. In lower-income countries, a large number of people with diabetes neglect foot care, and seek medical advice only after serious diabetic foot infection occurs. As the number of the people with peripheral arterial disease is gradually increasing in the WPR, ischaemic foot problems are becoming more common in the WPR, especially in higher-income countries.
Publication Year: 2020
Publication Date: 2020-04-24
Language: en
Type: other
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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