Self-treatment challenges are more often found in adults with diabetic foot ulcers compared with those with diabetes alone due to lessened possession of cognitive resources, according to study findings published in Diabetes Care . “These findings indicate that participants with [diabetic foot ulcers] in this study were challenged with more severe cognitive difficulties compared with the participants without this complication,” the researchers wrote. “It should be emphasized that the cross-sectional design limits the ability to draw definitive conclusions about causality.”
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Fewer cognitive resources found in adults with diabetic foot ulcers