| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - Diabetes is a leading cause of blindness, end stage renal disease, and amputation in the US and in the VA. The mortality rate among VA patients with diabetes averages approximately 5% per year, compared with an average of 2.6% among patients without diabetes, and the majority of deaths and hospitalizations related to diabetes, both inside and outside VA, are due to macrovascular complications such
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