Prevalence and incidence of peripheral polyneuroapathy and correlation among different clinical factors in people with type 1 diabetes

Background: The control and early diagnosis of diabetic neuropathy (DNP) reduce the risk of diabetes foot ulceration and lower-extremity amputation. The aim of this study is to assess correlation among different clinical factors and prevalence of DNP as the result of type-1 diabetes mellitus (DM). Patients and methods: A total of 385 outpatients (52,8% female vs. 41,2% male) with diabetes type 1 were identified from our retrospective monocentric database. Last clinic visit was recorded from 01.09.2013 to 30.9.2015. Mean datas were as following: age 50,65 years, duration of diabetes 22,8 years, BMI 27,3 kg/m2, Hb…