Of the 7 patients in the
control group who had a diabetic foot ulcerdwhere all delayed
going to the hospital (over 4 weeks), thus developing infectionsd2
required minor foot amputations and the other 5 recovered. In the
study group, 1 patient returned to the foot clinic 3 days after an
ulcer was noticed. There were no infections and amputations
identified in the study group (Table 3), and there were no (0%) foot
ulcers among the 30 patients of this study. The comparison of A1C
between the 2 groups is also shown inTable 3(p