Diabetes data

Diabetic population: 3% of total population.

DFU incidence: 10-15% of the diabetic population.

Amputation rate: 10-15% of total DFU population.

The annual incidence of foot ulceration is slightly more than 2% among all patients with diabetes, and 5 - 7.5% among diabetic patients with peripheral neuropathy.

Over 1 million amputations for diabetic related complications occur every year 2.

45% of the diabetic foot injuries are of neuropathic or neuro-infectious cause, which means that there is not a significant damage to the foot blood irrigation associated with the damage to the nervous tissue. In the remaining 55% of ischemic injuries, the damage to the blood vessels at both micro and macro vascular level causes an insufficient blood supply that complicates the healing process even more. The presence of the ischemic component is one of the risk factors for major amputations.