World Health Organization considered diabetes as one of the 20th century epidemics,
estimating that over 10% of the world population is diabetic or at high risk. Self-assessment
studies indicate that diabetic patients consider chronic wounds to affect their quality of life
more dramatically than vision loss or renal failure. In addition to being the main reason for
diabetic patients' hospitalization, the economic burden of diabetic chronic wounds is close to
1% of United Kingdom and United States health systems budgets, which exceeds the funds …