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Why does diabetes1 people sometimes develop boil in their body?
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Infection: People with diabetes often have an impaired ability to fight infection, because their immune system does not work as well as a person without diabetes. This is particularly true when the diabetes is not well controlled.
Answered 5/6/2013
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