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Old 03-12-2010, 10:35 AM
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All complications from diabetes are covered by agent orange disability. It is hell on arteries causing strokes, heart attacks, kidney failure and is the most common cause of limb amputations. The arteries can be anywhere in the body and when they are narrowed by the diabetes ischemia results. If there is narrowing of the kidney arteries it caused the kidneys to send out signals to raise the blood pressure. It is called renal hypertension.
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