Demographics

but the demographics for diabetic foot, so. Oh gosh. Okay, so we know we've spoken about diagnosis and the delays of diagnosis. So we know that 50% of those people who are diagnosed with type 2 diabetes already present with complications of the foot. those complications are primarily changes to sensory nerves as I've described. So there's already a deficiency in that area, that's 50% of the population. We also know that 1 in 10 of our type 2 patients with diabetes will sadly undergo an amputation, a lower limb amputation. So that figure, the 1 in 10 could range from a loss of a toe right up to a limb loss. Five years after an amputation has taken place the statistics are quite grim. Most of those patients either go on to lose further or have undergo further amputation or loss of life. The statistics also show us that the incidence of amputation is and the deaths related to that are the third highest in the country, in the world rather I should say, so they fall below the cancers breast and prostate and that's quite high and unfortunately you know we I think we're still some way off and the answer here is the diagnosis the early diagnosis really.