why does being diabetic have such a significant impact to your feet? How are they connected?

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Sparing the details, a colleague of mine recently had his big toe amputated due to diabetes. I wondered why being diabetic could lead to this as it’s common.

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Sugar sticks to stuff (non-enzymatic glycosylation) and that damaged tissue. It does this under normal circumstances but having more sugar in your blood means it does it too much.

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