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01-06-2008 | Letter
Diabetic podopathy—no thanks!
Authors:
A. J. M. Boulton, D. G. Armstrong, N. R. Baker, G. Rayman
Published in:
Diabetologia
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Issue 6/2008
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Excerpt
To the Editor: We read with interest the recent commentary from Jeffcoate on diabetic podopathy [
1], but were disappointed by a rather negative tone that prevailed in the introduction. If it were true that no one liked feet, there would surely be no podiatrists or chiropodists! Whereas the foot may still be neglected in some areas, there is no doubt that interest in the foot has increased dramatically over the last quarter-century, as evidenced by an exponential increase in publications in this area as well as by the large number of national and international meetings on this topic [
2]. Moreover, there has been an increase across the world in dedicated multi-disciplinary diabetic foot clinics. …
