Duane Lea at an exam room at Black Creek Community Health Centre in Toronto.
Untreated Type 2 diabetes can lead to devastating consequences like leg and foot amputations, particularly among Black Canadians. It is an issue doctors are working to understand and solve with early screening.Duane Lea, who has already lost one foot to a blood clot, fears losing a limb to amputation from diabetes. Doctors say limb loss due to diabetes complications is an epidemic among Black Canadians.
Untreated Type 2 diabetes can also lead to devastating consequences like leg and foot amputations, particularly among Black Canadians. It is an issue doctors are working to understand and solve with early screening and more.from 2023 showed a Black man is twice as likely to die from diabetes complications as a white man , with similar rates in women .
"Because Black Canadians are more likely to get diabetes they should be screened earlier at 30 or 35," Eissa said. Eissa said she thinks more should be done to let all Canadians know they should be screened for cancers and diabetes. Psychologist Nicole Woods introduced a program to train personal support workers to check the feet of people with diabetes in their own homes.
To try to address that, Wood said Toronto's Best Foot Forward program brings foot screening to people they already trust, perhaps even nail salon workers, instead of requiring patients to seek out and find medical care.foot ulcers
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