Prevalence and risk factors for diabetic peripheral neuropathy, neuropathic pain and foot ulceration in the Arabian Gulf region.

Georgios PonirakisTarik ElhaddEbaa Al OzairiImad BremaSubitha ChinnaiyanEtab TaghadomJumana Al KandariRehab Al WotayanAbdulla Al OzairiNaji AljohaniWael AlMistehiNora Al QahtaniShawana KhanZeinab DabbousMashhood A SiddiqueIoannis N PetropoulosAdnan KhanHamad AlmuhannadiKhaled Ae AshaweshKhaled M DukhanZiyad R MahfoudMahmoud A ZirieAmin JayyousiRayaz Ahmed Malik

Published in: Journal of diabetes investigation (2022)

This is the largest study to date from the Middle East showing a high prevalence of undiagnosed DPN, painful DPN and those at risk of DFU in patients with type 2 diabetes, and identifies their respective risk factors.

Keyphrases

neuropathic pain
risk factors
spinal cord
spinal cord injury
type diabetes
genome wide
wound healing