Dan Ziegler, Solomon Tesfaye, Vincenza Spallone, Irina Gurieva, Juma Al Kaabi, Boris Mankovsky, Emil Martinka, Gabriela Radulian, Khue Thy Nguyen, Alin O Stirban, Tsvetalina Tankova, Tamás Varkonyi, Roy Freeman, Péter Kempler, Andrew Jm Boulton
Diabetic sensorimotor polyneuropathy (DSPN) affects around one third of people with diabetes and accounts for considerable morbidity, increased risk of mortality, reduced quality of life, and increased health care costs resulting particularly from neuropathic pain and foot ulcers. Painful DSPN is encountered in 13-26% of diabetes patients, while up to 50% of patients with DSPN may be asymptomatic. Unfortunately, DSPN still remains inadequately diagnosed and treated. Herein we provide international expert consensus recommendations and algorithms for screening, diagnosis, and treatment of DSPN in clinical practice derived from a Delphi process...
April 2022: Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice