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Diabetes Therapy

In diabetics, measuring pain threshold via electrical stimulation is noninvasive and repeatable

Published in Pain and Central Nervous System Week, November 13th, 2006

Measuring the pain threshold and tolerance using electrical stimulation in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus is noninvasive, cheap and repeatable.

"The aim of the study was to assess pain threshold and tolerance in diabetics with/without neuropathy and to compare that in with healthy controls. In this cross-sectional and comparative study, 79 diabetics (57 without neuropathy and 22 with neuropathy) and 32 healthy controls (63 women and 48 men) with a mean age of 48.1±7.52 years were studied," scientists in Turkey report.

O. Telli and colleagues at Pamukkale University wrote, "Seventy-nine diabetics, aged 33 to 74, who met inclusion...

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