10 Dec New IDDT foot care booklet
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Entirely funded by the IDDT, Diabetes: Looking After Your Feet is a comprehensive guide to one of the most common complications of diabetes – diabetic peripheral neuropathy, medically known as distal symmetric polyneuropathy involving motoric, sensoric and autonomic deficits. Worryingly, in the forward to the booklet the IDDT draw attention to a recent (2015) analysis of NHS data by Diabetes UK which states that 414,784 people in England did not have an annual diabetic foot check which is 27.7% of people with Type 1 diabetes and 13.3% with Type 2 in...