People with diabetic foot ulcers (DFUs) who live in areas with a high level of deprivation may be more likely to require major amputation than those living in less deprived areas, suggest findings from a French cohort study … Jean-Baptiste Bonnet (Hôpital Lapeyronie, Montpellier) used the French National Health Data System to evaluate amputation data from 15,507 individuals in the Languedoc-Roussillon administrative area with any type of diabetes who experienced a first DFU between 2015 and 2017. These people were aged an average of 70 years, 55% were men, and 20% required hospitalization … read more
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Custom-made indoor footwear may be beneficial for people with diabetes at risk for ulceration
“Custom-made footwear is an effective intervention to help prevent foot ulceration and is recommended in international guidelines,” but ensuring consistent use is “a challenge,” particularly indoors, explain Sicco Bus and co-authors from Amsterdam University Medical Center in the Netherlands … To address this issue, the researchers carried out a study of 31 people with type 1 (23%) or type 2 (77%) diabetes with moderate-to-high risk for plantar foot ulceration who already possessed custom-made footwear prescribed by a rehabilitation medicine specialist. These people were provided with additional custom-made footwear specifically designed for indoor use, with the same biomechanical offloading capacity as their existing footwear … read more