Vascular Health and ConditionsDiabetes-Related Complicationsartery diseasediabetesdiabetic foot ulcersvascular diseasearteriesfootveins
What are diabetic foot ulcers?
Here Dr Simon Ashwell discusses what diabetic foot ulcers are what causes them.
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What are diabetic foot ulcers? So a diabetic foot ulcer is a break in the skin in someone with diabetes below the ankle from any cause. The most usual causes relate to nerve damage or artery disease. Arterial and vascular are words that are used interchangeably. By vascular you mean anything to do with the blood supply arterially specific to the arteries rather than the veins and the arteries are the vessels that bring blood into the foot whereas the veins are the vessels that take blood away from the foot so arterial diseases can also be caused or could also be called vascular disease.
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