Articles about diabetic

Healing The Diabetic Foot Ulcer: New Hope

By Dr Alexandra Buk A diabetic foot ulcer is an open sore or wound that most commonly occurs on the bottom of the foot in approximately 15% of patients with diabetes. Of those who develop a foot ulcer, 6% will be hospitalized due to infection or other ulcer-related complications. Diabetes is the leading cause of [...]

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Diabetes and Your Feet

Footworks November 2009 By Dr Alexandra Buk Diabetes is a serious disease that can develop from the lack of insulin production in the body or due to the inability of the body’s insulin to perform its normal, everyday functions. Insulin is a substance produced from the pancreas gland that helps process the food we eat [...]

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