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Blood Glucose control in Diabetic foot care is important.
Dr Prashant Vas, Consultant Endocrinologist and Diabetologist talks about the importance of Glucose Control in preventing nerve damage (peripheral neuropathy) and Peripheral Arterial Disease (narrowing of the arteries to the feet). He advocates personalising your blood sugar target with your healthcare provider team.
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Diabetes can lead to the development of nerve damage, and diabetes can also lead to the development of circulatory problems. Together, good diabetes control has been shown to prevent both of these. And therefore it's important that we make sure that a diabetes is well controlled very early on, not to let until we develop complications because they're far more difficult to reverse than they are to prevent. There are many ways of ensuring good diabetes control. It depends on whether you have type 1 diabetes or type 2 diabetes and we would encourage you to speak to your diabetes specialist team or to your GP to make sure you achieve your personalized target to prevent the development of any diabetes related complications. But most importantly, from my perspective, the nerve damage and the circulatory problems.
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