Health Risks and ImpactsPatient Mobility Issuesdiabetesdiabetic footgangreneamputationfootmetabolic system
Why do some people with diabetes end up having to have an amputation?
Mr Ernest Barlow-Kearsley talks about what leads to a person with diabetes developing problems with blood flow to the foot through hardening and blockages of the arteries. The lack of blood flow to the foot can lead to gangrene and result in an amputation.
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What are the risk factors for developing diabetic foot? So who who does develop diabetic foot? I would say that in the modern world we we are starting to understand that obesity is the cause of diabetes purely because of the metabolic load that is required by the pancreas to manage these high blood sugar levels and this can then result in arteriosclerosis and the resultant runoff into the foot being compromised. The patient then could develop either gangrene and or an amputation and then that can cause tremendous difficulty for these patients to get about.
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