BACKGROUND Preventing diabetic foot problems (DFP) and their associated consequences is a critical in rural regions. The objective is to present an association of non-invasive DFP assessment tools and physiological indicators for early detection among rural cases of diabetes in Taiwan. METHODS Secondary data analysis of 387 participants previously diagnosed with type 2 diabetes was used. The ...

The heat capacity of MnSi at B = 0 and B = 4 T was measured in the temperature range 2.5-100 K. To analyze the data, calculations of the phonon spectrum and phonon density of states in MnSi were performed. The calculated phonon frequencies were confirmed by means of inelastic neutron scattering. The analysis of the data suggests the existence of negative contributions to the heat capacity and e...

OBJECTIVE Peripheral sensory neuropathy (PSN) is a common cause of ulceration and amputation in diabetes (DM) patients. The prevalence of PSN in DM patients is largely undetermined in sub-Saharan African population. We studied the burden of PSN in DM patients using a validated questionnaire and quantitative sensory test. METHODS In a case-control design, PSN was measured in 491 DM patients an...

AIMS The Michigan Neuropathy Screening Instrument (MNSI) is used to assess distal symmetrical peripheral neuropathy in diabetes. It includes two separate assessments: a 15-item self-administered questionnaire and a lower extremity examination that includes inspection and assessment of vibratory sensation and ankle reflexes. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the performance of the MNSI i...

BACKGROUND Peripheral arterial disease (PAD) is one of the major manifestations of systemic atherosclerosis and plays an important role in low-extremity amputation in type 2 diabetic patients. The aim of this study was to explore the prevalence and risk factors for asymptomatic PAD in type 2 diabetic community residents. METHODS This cross-sectional study enrolled 552 type 2 diabetic adults (...

Background MNSI is widely used for evaluation of distal symmetric peripheral polyneuropathy (PPN) in individuals with diabetes. In the DCCT/EDIC study, the MNSI was validated for screening of signs and symptoms of PPN, presenting, for a cutoff of ≥2.5, sensitivity of 61%, specificity of 79%, positive predictive value (PPV) of 55% and negative (NPV) of 83%, when compared to neurological examinat...

BACKGROUND The Michigan Neuropathy Screening Instrument is an easy-to-use questionnaire aimed at screening and detecting diabetic polyneuropathy. OBJECTIVE To translate and cross-culturally adapt the MNSI to Brazilian Portuguese and evaluate its measurement properties. METHODS Two bilingual translators translated from English into Brazilian Portuguese and made a synthetic version. The synth...

Using polarized inelastic neutron scattering the antisymmetric part of the dynamical susceptibility in non-centrosymmetric MnSi is determined. The paramagnetic fluctuations are found to be incommensurate with the chemical lattice and to have a chiral character. We show that antisymmetric interactions must be taken into account to properly describe the critical dynamics in MnSi above the Curie t...

Based on first-principles electron structure calculations and employing the frozen-magnon approximation, we study the exchange interactions in a series of transition-metal binary alloys crystallizing in the zinc-blende structure and calculate the Curie temperature within both the mean-field approximation and random-phase approximation. We study two Cr compounds, CrAs and CrSe, and four Mn compo...

Measurements of the sound velocities in a single crystal of MnSi were performed in the temperature range 4-150 K. Elastic constants, controlling propagation of longitudinal waves, reveal significant softening at a temperature of about 29.6 K and small discontinuities at ∼28.8 K, which corresponds to the magnetic phase transition in MnSi. In contrast, the shear elastic moduli do not show any sof...