Sentences with phrase «get diabetic foot»

Your legs rot — and you get diabetic foot ulcers.

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Each year in the United States 40,000 diabetics get kidney disease, up to 24,000 go blind, and 82,000 have amputations — a toe, foot, or leg — because of vascular failure.

Just as he was getting back on his feet, Majka was diagnosed with the sight - robbing condition diabetic retinopathy.

Having staph aureus in your nose — which is the case for about 30 percent of people — is not necessarily a problem in and of itself, but is a risk factor for getting other infections such as surgical site infections, boils, catheter site infections in people on dialysis and diabetic foot ulcers.