Incidence of Diabetic Foot in the Podiatry Clinic of the University of La Coruña

Abstract

Diabetes Mellitus is a disease of high incident in our country, it is known that it (he, she) affects approximately 5 % of the Spanish population generating a high economic cost derived directly from the disease and his(her,your) complications. About a 25 % of the diabetics has problems in their feet, due to the appearance of chronic sores (“diabetic foot” and vascular peripheral disease), in such a way that one of every fifteen diabetics will suffer amputation of one of their low extremities, and of them, 30-40 % will lose another extremity in 3 years. Turning the DM into the principal reason of not traumatic amputation. Across this study we try to know the diabetics’ incident that they come to the CUP and of pathology associated with the syndrome of diabetic foot with the purpose of improving the prevention of appearance of injuries to MMII’s level derived from this disease.