ea0037ep427 | Diabetes (complications & therapy) | ECE2015
Strongin Leonid
, Korneva Ksenia
, Trifonova Elena
Introduction: Osteoarthritis (OA) and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) are common diseases among middle-aged and elderly persons. Aim of our study was to assess the influence of diabetic polyneuropathy (DPN) on the severity of pain in OA in patients with concomitant T2DM.Methods: 80 female patients with OA of the knee joints in combination with T2DM were examined. The severity of gonarthrosis were assessed by Lequesne index (IL) (version 1997) using a val...