But Diabetes UK said missing routine treatment could lead to complications which could result in amputations.
At least 17 people are critically wounded, officials say, and the injuries include several amputations.
Feinberg said as many as 15 to 20 victims needed single or double amputations.
By 2015, the number of diabetes-related amputations is expected to rise to 7, 000 a year.
Diabetes can lead to blindness, kidney disease, heart disease or amputations, and it can be fatal.
In Pittsburgh, the Veterans Administration increased primary care for diabetics and reduced foot amputations by 38%.
Amputations were usually carried out by trained doctors, who operated with their faces covered for fear of reprisals.
In his first week, de Rond saw 174 casualties arrive, observed 23 amputations and 134 hours of operating.
Diabetes UK says that up to 80% of foot amputations could be avoided if better care was in place.
Foot injury, worsened by diabetes, is the leading cause of lower leg amputations in the U.S. and Western Europe.
If it's not kept under control, diabetes also can cause infections that may lead to leg or foot amputations.
Professor Blunn told BBC News the idea was initially developed for patients with amputations who have a "stump socket".
She ultimately needed several amputations, which the family feels could have been prevented.
Amputations caused by the blast are often fatal, and first responders likely focused on stopping bleeding as quickly as possible.
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In Boston, Feinberg will be dealing with complex injuries, such as numerous amputations, including cases where victims lost both legs.
Born without fibula in both legs, he had double amputations as a child and needs carbon-fiber prosthetic limbs to race.
One such pundit, Javed Ahmed Ghamidi, is no liberal: he supports the use of Islamic punishments, including amputations in extreme cases.
About 85% of the 125 amputations carried out in the UK every week were preventable with proper care and treatment, she added.
Pistorius had shown that someone with bilateral amputations could not only be a great athlete, but could compete with able bodied athletes.
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"The treatment required aggressive surgical intervention, but not amputations, " the statement said.
Diabetic neuropathy affects 10 million people in the U.S. and is the cause of at least 70% of the 100, 000 amputations performed each year.
Her father recounted how her loved ones saw the inevitability of the amputations in the changing color of her hands from day to day.
It doubles the risk of heart disease and stroke, and it is the country's leading cause of adult blindness, kidney failure, and non-traumatic amputations.
Dr. George Velmahos, the hospital's chief trauma surgeon, said Tuesday morning that four patients there have undergone amputations and two more limbs are in jeopardy.
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Patients with complex multiple amputations, who until recently would have faced a lifetime in a wheelchair, are now able to walk and take part in sports.
If treated appropriately, we can save a significant amount of money and improve productivity by reducing the subsequent heart disease, kidney failure, strokes, blindness, and amputations.
The two bombs on Monday injured 264 people, according to the Boston Public Health Commission, and led more than a dozen, including Ms. Abbott, to endure amputations.
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Doctors treating the wounded have said a number of people have had pellets and "nail-like" fragments removed from their bodies, and there are reports of several amputations.
Peter Fagenholz, a surgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital, which treated about 29 victims, said many faced critical surgeries in coming days and some had already undergone amputations.
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Rep. FILNER: Because we're going to have tens of thousands coming back, and they've had a particularly tough time with amputations and spinal cord and brain injuries.
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