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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The way I always thought of it was lots of sugar in blood makes blood thicker, thicker blood plus small veins = easy blockages, blockages lead to tissue damage/death. Something like that.

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