Health concerns for a person with Peripheral Arterial Disease (PAD) and Diabetes.

So if you've got peripheral arterial disease and you have diabetes, it may be a manifestation that you've got consequences of diabetes elsewhere in your body. It may be that's what we're seeing because it's external, you can look at someone's foot and you can see what's happening outside but it also may be a manifestation that there are other things going on inside for example problems with kidneys, problems with the heart and even problems with the back of the eye which patients with diabetes can suffer from. So it's really important to know about having peripheral arterial disease if you're diabetic because a it may mean that you need more closer eye eye kept on your foot and it also means that you may have other, it may be an indication you've got other health problems which need to be looked into and managed more carefully.