The prognosis for people with an infected diabetic foot ulcer is worse than was previously thought, according to new research … More than half the patients in the research study did not see their ulcer heal over a year — and one in seven had to have part or all of their foot amputated … Foot ulcers are open wounds and they affect around a quarter of the 3.3 million people in the UK living with diabetes … The wounds develop because diabetes damages the nerves and blood vessels in the feet … These wounds are chronic, slow to heal and prone to infection, and it is infection that normally leads to some of the severe consequences such as losing a limb or multiple amputations … read more