NERVE-CONDUCTION VELOCITY DETERMINATIONS IN JUVENILE DIABETES - CONTINUING STUDY OF 190 PATIENTS

  • 1 January 1976
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 57  (1) , 1-5
Abstract
Few prospective studies on the concomitant finding of neuropathy in juvenile diabetics exist. An ongoing study of motor and sensory nerve conduction determinations in 190 diabetic children, with sequential studies in 108 over an 8-yr period, is reported. The incidence of neuropathy in the sample population under 5 yr of age was negligible. In the children over 5 yr of age 8% had abnormal nerve conduction velocity (NCV) of the peroneal nerve, and 4.5% had abnormal median motor and sensory NCV on initial study. In the sequential studies of the children over 5 yr of age the percentage of abnormal NCV rose from 14% to 48% as the duration of diabetes increased from 1 yr to > 5 yr. It was the older juvenile diabetics with the longest duration of diabetes who would appear to have the highest incidence of neuropathy.

This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit: