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What are the main risk factors for Cellulitis?
Cellulitis is a common bacterial skin infection. Some of the risk factors of cellulitis include diabetes and lymphoedema. In this video, Professor Alun lists a few other risk factors for cellulitis.
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There are many risk factors for cellulitis. These include being diabetic, being elderly, being overweight and patients who have lymphedema and those who have incompetent varicose veins in their legs and also any other patient who may be immunocompromised because of another disease process or taking steroids.
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