THE GUARDIAN: Researchers speculate this may be due to change in self-care, food habits and social isolation
Divorced men are at the highest risk among people with diabetes of having some or all of their feet and legs amputated because of the disease, research has found.
People with diabetes who are divorced are two-thirds (67%) more likely to have to undergo a lower limb amputation than those who are married. Men are at 57% greater risk than women of that fate.
The trends emerged from research conducted among 66,569 people with diabetes in Sweden, findings from which will be presented at a conference of specialists in the disease.
The need for lower limb amputation is a serious but common side-effect of diabetes and a risk run by people with the type 1 and type 2 forms of the disease. On average, 184 people a week in England have some part of a lower limb removed surgically to stop infection spreading and killing them. The number of people with diabetes in Britain recently reached a record high of about 5.1 million. » | Denis Campbell, Health policy editor | Thursday, August 17, 2023
