Polyneuropathy in the diabetic patient--update on pathogenesis and management
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The role of glycation in the pathogenesis of diabetic polyneuropathy.
The most common neuropathy associated with diabetes mellitus is a distal sensory polyneuropathy. The relative importance of the direct effects of prolonged glycaemia on nervous tissue compared with indirect damage resulting from changes in blood vessels is not known. Although the importance of glycaemia is confirmed by a study showing that the incidence of neuropathy is greatly reduced by stric...
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عنوان ژورنال: Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation
سال: 2004
ISSN: 0931-0509,1460-2385
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfh398