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Old 12-19-2015, 12:34 PM
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Originally Posted by madisongrrl View Post
When I saw neurologists at the University of Wisconsin teaching hospital, their position on this topic is that 50% of SFN is due to glucose issues and the other 50% is idiopathic.
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It was interesting to note that there were nearly twice as many pre-diabetic patients as there were diabetic that had been classed as idiopathic. This coincides with what some on NT have found.
http://www.statnews.com/2015/12/13/c...investigation/
As far as I understand, the statistics in this research is based on 373 people who were referred to a specific peripheral neuropathy center with a previous diagnosis of idiopathic neuropathy. So it doesn’t necessarily represents the ratios in the general neuropathy patients population.

Maybe many people with diabetic neuropathy weren’t diagnosed as idiopathic in the first place, so they weren't reffered to this clinic or were left out of this research. Thats why only 25% there were found to haveimpaired glucose metabolism, and there were much mor eprediabetic then diabetic.
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