Background Diabetic foot disease (DFD) is the leading cause of hospitalisation and lower extremity amputation (LEA) in people with diabetes. Many studies have established the relationship between DFD and clinical risk factors, such as peripheral neuropathy and peripheral arterial disease. Other studies have identified the relationship between diabetes and non-clinical risk factors termed social...

OBJECTIVE To examine the differential in cancer survival between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people in Queensland in relation to time after diagnosis, remoteness and area-socioeconomic disadvantage. DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS Descriptive study of population-based data on all 150,059 Queensland residents of known Indigenous status aged 15 years and over who were diagnosed with a primar...

OBJECTIVE To quantify Indigenous mortality in the Northern Territory by remoteness of residence. DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS Australian Bureau of Statistics mortality data were used to compare rates of death from chronic disease in the NT Indigenous population with rates in the general Australian population over the period 1998-2003. Rates were evaluated by categories of remoteness based...

OBJECTIVES Despite being one of the healthiest countries in the world, Australia displays substantial mortality differentials by socioeconomic disadvantage, remoteness and sex. In this study, we examined how these mortality differentials translated to differences in life expectancy between 2001 and 2012. DESIGN AND SETTING Population-based study using mortality and estimated residential popul...

Let D be a strongly connected digraph. The average distance σ̄(v) of vertex v is the arithmetic mean distances from to all other vertices D. remoteness ρ(D) and proximity π(D) are maximum minimum D, respectively. We obtain sharp upper lower bounds on as function order n describe extreme digraphs for bounds. also such strong tournaments. show that tournament T, we have π(T)=ρ(T) if only T regular...