Best of 2021 #2 - Chunks and Gunk #4 with Music and Diabetic Conversation
about why this is so important and why my partner and i are developing a device that
will allow patients who can't see the bottoms of their feet to see the bottoms of their feet
this next slide is a really important one and it shows you absolutely how many people have diabetes
on the planet this is an international study that was done and the problem is that about
50 percent of all the diabetics are going to develop neuropathy and over 30 percent
of them will also develop a foot ulcer and these foot ulcers which are open sores can
become infected which leads to amputations what they found was that 80 percent worldwide of lower
extremity or leg amputations that occur are due to diabetic related complications and so what we know
is that it's very important to catch them early and the one big takeaway is that diabetic patients
or patients with any type of neuropathy need to be visually checking the bottoms of their feet
every single day to look for problems now the centers for disease control in the u.s puts out
every other year a national diabetes statistics report and what this one shows us is how many
people in the country over 34 million people folks that's 10 percent of the us population
is diabetic many of those aren't even diagnosed yet now we also hear about
people who are pre-diabetic and we're talking about over 30 percent of the adult us population
that are headed towards diabetes and we know all the complications that can come with that so of
all those people of the of the 30 percent a lot of those people are going to develop these foot
ulcers and again about one amputation of a foot or a leg is happening every 20 minutes so you don't
want a beautiful healthy foot like this becoming neuropathic from the diabetes and ending up
you