Prevalence and risk factors for diabetic neuropathy and painful diabetic neuropathy in primary and secondary healthcare in Qatar

Aims/Introduction This study determined the prevalence and risk factors for diabetic peripheral neuropathy (DPN) and painful DPN (pDPN) in patients with type 2 diabetes in primary healthcare (PHC) and secondary healthcare (SHC) in Qatar. Materials and Methods This was a cross‐sectional multicenter s...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of diabetes investigation 2021-04, Vol.12 (4), p.592-600
Hauptverfasser: Ponirakis, Georgios, Elhadd, Tarik, Chinnaiyan, Subitha, Hamza, Abdul H, Sheik, Sanaulla, Kalathingal, Mohamed A, Anodiyil, Mohamed S, Dabbous, Zeinab, Siddique, Mashhood A, Almuhannadi, Hamad, Petropoulos, Ioannis N, Khan, Adnan, AE Ashawesh, Khaled, Dukhan, Khaled M, Mahfoud, Ziyad R, Zirie, Mahmoud A, Jayyousi, Amin, Murgatroyd, Christopher, Slevin, Mark, Malik, Rayaz A
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Zusammenfassung:Aims/Introduction This study determined the prevalence and risk factors for diabetic peripheral neuropathy (DPN) and painful DPN (pDPN) in patients with type 2 diabetes in primary healthcare (PHC) and secondary healthcare (SHC) in Qatar. Materials and Methods This was a cross‐sectional multicenter study. Adults with type 2 diabetes were randomly enrolled from four PHC centers and two diabetes centers in SHC in Qatar. Participants underwent assessment of clinical and metabolic parameters, DPN and pDPN. Results A total of 1,386 individuals with type 2 diabetes (297 from PHC and 1,089 from SHC) were recruited. The prevalence of DPN (14.8% vs 23.9%, P = 0.001) and pDPN (18.1% vs 37.5%, P 
ISSN:2040-1116
2040-1124
DOI:10.1111/jdi.13388