The 2009 paper “Sweat testing to evaluate autonomic function” (Illigens & Gibbons, 2009) offers a deep dive into assessing sudomotor (sweat gland–related) function as a sensitive indicator of autonomic nerve health, especially in early diabetic neuropathy. In patients with diabetes,…
The article titled “The Neuropad test: a visual indicator test for human diabetic neuropathy” (Quattrini et al., 2008) discusses the use of the Neuropad® test as a simple visual indicator for evaluating diabetic neuropathy and compares the results of the…
The primary study into the ease of use of Neuropad® is “Evaluation of the Self-Administered Indicator Plaster Neuropad® for the Diagnosis of Neuropathy in Diabetes” (Tentolouris et al., 2008). In this study, a total of 156 subjects were recruited from…
A study entitled “Reproducibility of the New Indicator Test for Sudomotor Function (Neuropad®) in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus” was undertaken in University Hospital of Alexandroupolis, Greece to assess the reproducibility of Neuropad. In a 2005 short-communication study, the…
