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Foot Self-Care: Knowledge, Practices, and Influencing Factors among Patients with Diabetes in All Base Hospitals, Colombo District, Sri Lanka

2025-07-23

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<title>Abstract</title> <p><bold>Background:</bold> Diabetes Mellitus (DM) is characterized by elevated blood glucose levels. It is a very common and manageable health problem faced by many countries in the world. Diabetic foot is an infection, ulceration, or destruction of the tissue of the foot of a person diagnosed with DM. The study aimed to assess the knowledge and practices towards foot self-care and its as...

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Literature Corpus work: 38d25ac7-d291-5f90-9bb2-1cebbdd9058b
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-7110859/v1

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