Dermatoglyphics in Diabetes Mellitus of Type 2 (t2dm) or Non-insulindependent

Aim. The study is aimed to analyze the pathology of palmary dermatoglyphics of a group of population from Moldova (North-East part of Romania). Materials and methods. The study was performed on a group of 190 patients (60 men and 130 women), affected by diabetes mellitus type 2 (T2DM), aged between 40 and 82. The installation of the disease has occurred between the age of 35 and 80 years of age. Results. The results reached in the analysis of the 380 dermatoglyphic files have been compared with those recorded (by the author) for T1DM affected patients, and for a reference sample from the same geographical region with the former ones. The observation to be made is that, regardless of the age of the malady’s onset or of the afferent complications generated by T2DM in time, the patients evidenced a palmary dermatoglyphic picture with a deep pathological charge, suggestively illustrated by 10 important distortions or anomalies carrying profound medical significance. Associated in various combinations, between 3 and 6, in the palmar print of each affected person, such anomalies recorded values sensibly different from those of the reference sample, being quite close to the behavior of T1DM affected patients, in whom actually the clinical manifestations of the malady are (generally) similar. If, by its 10 individual palmary distortions T2DM is highly resembling T1DM, once they might be utilized as ,,markers” for a precocious diagnosis of the persons in whom the risk of T2DM is quite high, two important deviations at the level of the whole palmary picture permit the differentiation of the two forms of diabetes for further possible populational studies have been evidenced. They refer to the sensible diminution of the pattern frequency in the interdigital space IV, which led to a different positioning of this compartment in the classical distribution formula, namely: III > Hp > IV > Th/I > II instead of: IV > III > Hp > Th/I > II. Conclusions. Distorsions might be markers in the individual diagnosis. Dermatoglyphic test represent one of the procedure for tracing diabetes in population.