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What Your Nails Could Reveal About Diabetes

*Changes in your fingernails or toenails might seem purely cosmetic, but sometimes they can offer clues that something else is happening with your health — including complications associated with diabetes. Researchers have linked yellowing, thickening, brittleness and other nail abnormalities to conditions that occur more frequently among people with diabetes.

What Your Nails Could Reveal About Diabetes

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*Changes in your fingernails or toenails might seem purely cosmetic, but sometimes they can offer clues that something else is happening with your health — including complications associated with diabetes.

Researchers have linked yellowing, thickening, brittleness and other nail abnormalities to conditions that occur more frequently among people with diabetes.

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*Changes in your fingernails or toenails might seem purely cosmetic, but sometimes they can offer clues that something else is happening with your health — including complications associated with diabetes. Researchers have linked yellowing, thickening, brittleness and other nail abnormalities to conditions that occur more frequently among people with diabetes.

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