--- abstract: |- Diabetes currently affects more than 194 million people worldwide and is expected to reach 333 million by 2025, with the maximum burdens falling upon developing countries. India considered as “Diabetic capital of the world”, alone currently counts over 35 million people harbouring diabetes[1]. This is estimated to touch 73.5 million by 2025 as a consequence of longer life expectancy, sedentary lifestyle and changing dietary patterns[ altloc: [] chapter: ~ commentary: ~ commref: ~ confdates: ~ conference: ~ confloc: ~ contact_email: ~ creators_id: [] creators_name: - family: Singh given: Devender honourific: '' lineage: '' date: 2006 date_type: published datestamp: 2006-09-01 department: ~ dir: disk0/00/00/50/92 edit_lock_since: ~ edit_lock_until: ~ edit_lock_user: ~ editors_id: [] editors_name: [] eprint_status: archive eprintid: 5092 fileinfo: /style/images/fileicons/application_pdf.png;/5092/1/e4.pdf full_text_status: public importid: ~ institution: ~ isbn: ~ ispublished: pub issn: ~ item_issues_comment: [] item_issues_count: 0 item_issues_description: [] item_issues_id: [] item_issues_reported_by: [] item_issues_resolved_by: [] item_issues_status: [] item_issues_timestamp: [] item_issues_type: [] keywords: ~ lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:56:34 latitude: ~ longitude: ~ metadata_visibility: show note: ~ number: 3 pagerange: ~ pubdom: TRUE publication: Calicut Medical Journal publisher: Calicut Medical College Alumni Association refereed: TRUE referencetext: |- 1. King H, Aubert RE, Herman WH (1998) Global burden of diabetes, 1995-2025; Prevalence, numerical estimates, and projections. Diabetes Care 21:1414-1431. 2. International Diabetes Federation. Diabetes Atlas, 2nd ed. 2003. 3. Reiber GE. The Epidemiology of Diabetic Foot Problems. Diabet Med, 13 (Suppl. 1): 6-11,1996 4. Most RS, Sinnock P. The epidemiology of lower limb extremity amputations in diabetic individuals. Diabetes Care 1983; 6: 87-91 5. Trautner C, Haastert B, Giani G, Berger M. Incidence of lower limb amputations and diabetes. Diabetes Care 1996; 19: 1006-1009 6. Apelqvist J, Larsson J, Agardh CD. Long term prognosis for diabetic patients with foot ulcers. J Intern Med 1993; 233: 485-491 7. Apelqvist J, Ragnarson-Tennvall G, Persson U, Larsson J. Diabetic foot ulcers in a multidisciplinary setting. An economic analysis of primary healing with amputation. J Intern Med, 235 (5): 463-471, 1994 8. Diabetes Care and Research in Europe: The Saint Vincent Declaration. Workshop Report. Diadet Med 1990; 7: 360 9. International Diabetes Federation and International Working Group of the Diabetic Foot. Time to act. The Netherlands, 2005. 10. Margolis DJ, Allen – Taylor L, Hoffstad O, Berlin J. Healing diabetic neuropathic foot ulcers: are we getting better? Diabet Med 2005;22:172-176 11. Sumpio BF, Lee T, Blume PA. Vascular evaluation and arterial reconstruction of the diabetic foot. Clin Podiatr Med Surg 2003;20:689-708 12. Chatha DS, Cunningham PM, Schweitzer ME. MR imaging of the diabetic foot: diagnostic challenges. Radiol Clin North Am 2005;43:747-759 13. Armstrong DG, Lipsky BA. Advances in the treatment of diabetic foot infections. Diabetes Technol Ther 2004;6:167-177 14. Dang CN, Prasad YD, Boulton AJ, Jude EB. Methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus: a worsening problem. Diadet Med 2003;20:159-161 15. Edmonds ME. The diabetic foot, 2003. Diabetes Metab Res Rev 2004; 20: suppl 1: S9-S12 relation_type: [] relation_uri: [] reportno: ~ rev_number: 12 series: ~ source: ~ status_changed: 2007-09-12 17:06:56 subjects: - calcut succeeds: ~ suggestions: ~ sword_depositor: ~ sword_slug: ~ thesistype: ~ title: 'Diabetic foot: It’s time to share the burden' type: journale userid: 4187 volume: 4