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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Around a quarter of young people with type 2 diabetes also have diabetic peripheral neuropathy, a new pilot study indicates.
The prevalence of diabetic peripheral neuropathy found among the youngsters with type 2 diabetes far exceeded that of young people with type 1 diabetes and approached that of adults with type 2.
"We were surprised that the youth with T2D had such a high prevalence," study principal investigator Eva L. Feldman, MD, PhD, the Russell N. DeJong Professor of Neurology and director of the A. Alfred Taubman Medical Research Institute at the University of Michigan, in Ann Arbor, told Medscape Medical News.
However, she added that a similarly high diabetic peripheral neuropathy rate was found among youths with type 2 diabetes in a previous study from Australia (Diabetes Care. 2006;29:1300- 6) and that it is likely related to longer duration of diabetes and a more atherogenic lipid profile.
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/815107
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The prevalence of diabetic peripheral neuropathy found among the youngsters with type 2 diabetes far exceeded that of young people with type 1 diabetes and approached that of adults with type 2.
"We were surprised that the youth with T2D had such a high prevalence," study principal investigator Eva L. Feldman, MD, PhD, the Russell N. DeJong Professor of Neurology and director of the A. Alfred Taubman Medical Research Institute at the University of Michigan, in Ann Arbor, told Medscape Medical News.
However, she added that a similarly high diabetic peripheral neuropathy rate was found among youths with type 2 diabetes in a previous study from Australia (Diabetes Care. 2006;29:1300- 6) and that it is likely related to longer duration of diabetes and a more atherogenic lipid profile.
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/815107
(free registration required)