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Abstract
Diabetes mellitus (DM) is one of the oldest diseases known to man . It is a clinical syndrome characterized by inappropriate elevation of fasting and / or post prandial blood glucose and the development of microvascular, macrovascular and neuropathic changes . It results from a large variety of etiologic and pathogenic mechanisms . Diabetes mellitus is likely to be an auto immune disease arising in a susceptible individual exposed to an environmental triggering event (Bennet, 1990).The aim of this work is to detect early (subclinical) cases with diabetic neuropathy utilizing nerve conduction studies Patients and methods:
The work includes sixty diabetic patients which undergo complete history taking including neurological symptoms and the history of diabetes mellitus together with complete general and neurological examinations for evidence of diabetic ncuropathy laboratory and electrophysiological studies were assessed in all the patients ,they were classified into two groups Group I included thirty type 1 diabetic patients aged from l8to 40 years with a mean of 37 + 15.5 year.
It comprised 14 males and 16 females, duration of DM ranged from 1.5—5 years