Friday, 05/03/02 | 10573 reads Issue Number: Volume 15 - Issue 5 - May 2002Author(s): By Anthony Yung, DPMAt least 30 percent of patients with diabetes will develop cutaneous manifestations in their lifetime.1 Given that diabetes is a systemic disease, its effects on the skin may arise from many different sources (vascular, metabolic, nutritional disturbances, infectious agents and medications).