Thashi Chang knows it’s not a sentimental metaphor. Instead it’s meant to be taken literally, as a sign that the nerves in the patient’s feet have begun to succumb to neuropathy. The causes of ...
Numbness in the feet is a symptom of neuropathy or nerve damage, one of the most common long-term complications of type 2 diabetes. Neuropathy is caused by poor blood sugar control that persists over ...
According to a case–control study published in Neurology, the expression of proinflammatory cytokines is elevated in the affected skin of patients with small-fiber neuropathy (SFN).
To discern the etiology of PN in IPD patients, the authors examined a number of known causes of neuropathy, most of which were unrevealing. Although similar cobalamin levels were found in the IPD ...
The latter study's results admittedly do not exclude the possibility that impaired glucose tolerance occasionally causes symptomatic neuropathy. Nevertheless, I believe that OGTT is unnecessary in ...