What Is Gas Gangrene?
3. What Are the Risk Factors for Gas Gangrene?
Aside from individuals who sustain deep wounds and/or undergo surgery, individuals who live with certain chronic medical conditions are more likely to contract gas gangrene than others. Conditions that affect a person’s blood flow increase his or her odds of contracting gas gangrene and other types of gangrene.
There are several chronic and common conditions that restrict blood flow. Those include diabetes, obesity, peripheral artery disease, Raynaud’s phenomenon and narrowed arteries. Individuals who smoke, sustain serious trauma or frostbite to a limb or who live with weakened immune systems are also at risk.
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