Abstract
Skin blood flow is reduced in diabetics and results in a deficient response when the body has need to increase blood flow. Normal people use more capillaries. Diabetics make the vessels in use work harder individually. Fewer capillaries exist in the skin of diabetics accounting for such a reaction.
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Kolff, W.J., Scribner, B.H., Starzl, T., Friedman, E.A. (1998). More About Diabetic Skin. In: Strength and Compassion in Kidney Failure. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5296-9_17
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