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Ulcer risk stratification in high-risk patients with diabetes
Background The current understanding of diabetic foot disease is based on a biomedical model of predominantly non-modifiable risk factors, including neuropathy, vascular disease, foot deformity, and ulcer history. For that reason, ulcer risk stratification systems only incorporate these traditional risk factors, not taking important, novel, and modifiable biomechanical and patient-behaviour parameters, or any personalised, gender…