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What are the symptoms of PAD in Diabetes?

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What are the symptoms of PAD in Diabetes?

Mr Joseph Shalhoub, Consultant Vascular and Endovascular Surgeon, discusses what symptoms you might develop if you have Peripheral Arterial Disease as a person with Diabetes.

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Lots of patients with diabetes have peripheral arterial disease, they may not even know about it, they may not feel anything, they may have no consequence from it. But it's important to be aware that peripheral arterial disease is something which patients with diabetes can develop. The consequences as I mentioned could be you may not know anything about it, it may give you symptoms in your legs such as pain in your legs when you walk, but the most common manifestation of peripheral arterial disease in a diabetic patient is having a problem with You

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