Background: Painful diabetic neuropathy occurs in approximately 25-30% of patients with diabetes mellitus, it typically causes burning pain, paresthesias, and numbness in a stocking-glove pattern that progresses proximally from the feet and hands that significantly affects quality of life, yet as many as 12% of patients with painful DPN do not report symptoms, and 39% of patients with the disorder do not receive any treatment. However, the pathogenesis of painful diabetic neuropathy is still unclear, the painful symptoms do not correlate to the clinical severity.
Date:
2017-10
Relation:
Journal of the Neurological Sciences. 2017 Oct;381(Suppl. S):136.
