As many as 50% of people with diabetes develop dermopathy, which causes small lesions on your skin. They can be reddish or brownish in color and are usually round or oval in shape. Share on ...

Shin spots (diabetic dermopathy): This condition happens due to changes to the blood vessels in your skin. Dermopathy appears as a shiny round or oval lesion on the thin skin of your shins.

If you have diabetes, it’s important to be aware of potentially serious skin problems related to the disease and see your doctor before the problem gets out of control. In most cases, skin ...

Necrobiosis lipoidica diabeticorum (NLD) also features light brown oval or circular patches, but the lesions are deeper, larger, and fewer than in diabetic dermopathy. NLD is a rare condition and ...

Investigators at the Joslin Diabetes Center now have shown that eyes with diabetic retinal lesions predominantly in peripheral areas of the retina that are seen in UWF images but not in ...

Diabetes can also increase the risk of certain ... skin conditions or infections will itch at the site of the spot or lesion. Itching can make a person feel uncomfortable in their clothes, wake ...

and 33 diabetic and 20 non-diabetic participants in the white-matter-lesion study. All participants were between the ages of 18 and 50. Diabetics were diagnosed before the age of 18 and had the ...

Until recently, the treatment for diabetic retinopathy relied almost exclusively on managing the metabolic dysregulation of diabetes mellitus until the severity of vascular lesions warranted laser ...

are leading a clinical trial to investigate whether a commonly used type 2 diabetes drug could prevent oral cancer. The three-year study, led by Dr. Leigha Rock, is recruiting and studying 86 patients ...

Diabetic dermopathy is a skin condition that commonly appears on the lower part of the legs in people with diabetes. People may sometimes refer to the condition as pigmented pretibial patches or ...