Redesigning diabetic foot risk assessment for amputation prevention in low-resource settings: Development of a purely mechanical plantar pressure evaluation device
As global diabetes rates skyrocket, diabetic foot complications constitute a massive and rapidly growing global health problem, causing one million lower-extremity amputations every year. These amputations are typically preceded by largely preventable diabetic foot ulcers (DFUs). However, 80% of the...
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2023
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/151893 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7869-4389 |