While medication can control the blood sugar levels of most patients diagnosed with diabetes, it has not decreased the rate of secondary complications.

Occasionally, someone has secondary complications and dies, but a healthy adult usually doesn't.

These catheters may cause infection and other associated secondary complications.

Osteomyelitis is a secondary complication in 1-3% of patients with pulmonary tuberculosis.

These are the groups most at risk from developing secondary complications.

But the prevailing opinion was that such bacterial sinusitis was a secondary complication.

This supports the physical health of long bed rest patients and prevents secondary complications caused by immobility.

They may occur as a secondary complication in plants already affected by some pest or disease however.

Haycraft survived a bout of lung cancer but died a year later after secondary complications at age 72, in 2005.

This includes the treatment of patients with complicated diabetes foot ulcers, complex accompanying diseases and secondary complications.