Diabetic blacks, Hispanics face more hospitalizations

“Blacks and Hispanics are four to five times more likely than non-Hispanic whites to be hospitalized for uncontrolled diabetes and at least three times more likely to have diabetes-related, lower-extremity amputations, a federal study finds.
Such hospitalizations are “potentially preventable,” and similarly large racial/ethnic disparities exist in terms of “preventable” hospitalizations for other chronic conditions, such as high blood pressure, says the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality report. “

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