Diabetic medicine : a journal of the British Diabetic Association
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To assess cutaneous thermal and pain thresholds in upper and lower limbs in neurologically asymptomatic children and adolescents, and to study the relationships of clinical parameters and these sensory thresholds in subclinical diabetic neuropathy. ⋯ Using QST, abnormal cutaneous thermal perception is a common finding, in both upper and lower limbs, in neurologically asymptomatic young diabetic patients. Heat-induced pain threshold in the hand was correlated with the duration of the diabetes.
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Comment Letter Case Reports
A case of euglycaemic diabetic ketoacidosis in pregnancy--a reply.
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To describe body composition in patients with Type 1 diabetes at diagnosis and during the first year after initiation of insulin therapy. ⋯ During the first year after onset of Type 1 diabetes the mean increase in BW is 6.5% with a 13.3% increase in FM and a 4.9% increase in LBM. Self-reported data on premorbid BW suggest an approximately 10% reduction in BW at onset of Type 1 diabetes. Compared with a healthy reference population initial body composition data demonstrate a 25% reduction of the FM, whereas only a minor and non-significant reduction in the LBM is encountered. These data indicate that uncontrolled diabetes is rather a fat catabolic state than, as previously believed, a protein catabolic state.
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Letter Case Reports
A case of euglycaemic diabetic ketoacidosis in pregnancy.