New Therapies Revealed For Diabetes-induced Microvascular Disease

New findings could lead to future treatments to prevent lower limb amputations in diabetes. Diabetes can have serious complications like gangrene and skin ulcers due to a restriction of blood supply to and healing capacity of the affected areas and this causes the dysfunction of cells lining the blood vessels. Legs and feet are often severely affected, and, after blood supply is obstructed or injury, the tissue seems to be unable to heal itself by growing new blood vessels making the situation much worse.

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