About 100 people a week in the UK have a limb amputated as a result of diabetes, a charity has warned.
The disease, which affects more than two million Britons, causes damage to nerves and blood vessels to the limbs, which can lead to amputation.
About 5,000 people a year have the operation, and diabetics are 15 times more likely to need a lower limb amputating than those without the disease.
Diabetes UK said there was an "urgent need" for greater awareness of the impact of diabetes, which also causes heart attacks, stroke, blindness and kidney failure.
About seven out of 10 people having an amputation will die within five years as a result of possible complications and their condition, figures suggest.
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