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Diabetics are losing legs unnecessarily

Improved 6-year survival in patients with chronic diabetic ulcers after hyperbaric oxygen therapy: outcome from a randomized double-blind study. 

Summary:  8 weeks of hyperbaric oxygen therapy improves mortality rate by more than 23% six years later.

By Londahl M. et al. 

Lund University, Sweden. European Association for the Study of Diabetes 2015 Meeting. 

Diabetics are losing legs unnecessarily

Evidence suggests a simple therapy could prevent amputations in some 70 per cent of cases

By CHRISTIE BLATCHFORD, Front pageSaturday's Globe and Mail, March 26, 2005


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