If a U.S. citizen has diabetes and he develops a foot infection, it makes worse effect on the patient. He will be at a 55 times greater risk for hospitalization. Moreover, he will be a distressing 154 times greater risk for amputation. The journal Diabetes Care publishes the research.



Researchers at Texas A&M University, Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science and the University of Washington have made a study on this disease link. They had collected data of about 1,700 diabetics for two and half years. After the intensive research they found that ninety percent case of amputation occurred because of the a foot infection.



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