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Awareness ride for the 140 diabetic foot amputations per week in England

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Awareness ride for the 140 diabetic foot amputations per week in England

Graham Bowen
31 August 2017

There are an estimated 4.5 million people living with diabetes mellitus in the UK. As a consequence of long-term diabetes, people are at risk of developing foot ulcers — in the UK alone, around 86,000 people with diabetes have a foot ulcer.