Comparative assessment of brainstem auditory evoked potentials in apparently healthy medical students with a family history of diabetes mellitus type 2

[...]it is helpful to detect early Impairment of the auditory nerve and brainstem function. [...]BAEPs in apparently healthy subjects with and without family history of T2DM is assessed. [...]it is helpful to detect early Impairment of the auditory nerve and brainstem function. [11] Aim: Relating the neuropathic effects of T2DM and possible detection of central neuropathy by BAEPs; it may well be hypothesized that young non-diabetic people with a positive family history of T2DM may be diagnosed with genetic predisposition to T2M based on the BAEPs changes due to the inheritance pattern of genes affecting the disease. Peripheral neuropathy was excluded by performing the pressure tests with back of a pencil, proprioceptive test (sense of position of proximal and distal joints by rotating in various directions, keeping them in particular position, and asking the subject to keep the other limb in the same position with his eyes closed for the entire process), pain test using a pinprick and tendon pinch, tactile localization and discrimination, temperature tests using cold and warm objects.