In April 2022, the UK’s NAPCHD (National Advisory Panel for Care Home Diabetes), chaired by Professor Alan Sinclair published their “Strategic Document of Diabetes Care for Care Homes”, looking at how to best support the estimated 25% of the UK…
The article titled “Concordance between sudomotor disorder and the clinical diagnosis of diabetic peripheral neuropathy, according to various clinical guidelines” (Chicharro-Luna et al., 2021) explores the concordance between variations in Neuropad® results and the different diagnostic criteria of Diabetic Peripheral…
The University of Liverpool has published a report “Early Detection of Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy: A Focus on Small Nerve Fibres” which emphasises the connection between small fibre damage and sudomotor dysfunction, and proposes the use of Neuropad as a screening…
The article titled “Dryness of Foot Skin Assessed by the Visual Indicator Test and Risk of Diabetic Foot Ulceration: A Prospective Observational Study” (Panagoulias et al., 2020) investigates the association between dryness of foot skin and the risk of developing…
This article “Cost-effectiveness analysis of the Neuropad device as a screening tool for early diabetic peripheral neuropathy” (Rodríguez-Sánchez et al., 2020) presents a cost-effectiveness analysis of using the Neuropad device as a screening tool for early diabetic peripheral neuropathy. The…
The article titled “Validation of Neuropad in the Assessment of Peripheral Diabetic Neuropathy in Patients with Diabetes Mellitus Versus the Michigan Neuropathy Screening Instrument, 10g Monofilament Application and Biothesiometer Measurement” (Zografou et al., 2019) aims to evaluate the effectiveness of…
The paper entitled “Advantages of early diagnosis of diabetic neuropathy in the prevention of diabetic foot ulcers” (Sanz-Corbalán et al., 2018) discusses the usefulness of the sudomotor function test (SFT) as a clinical tool in the risk stratification of diabetic…
A study has been published by a team from the Deutsches Hospital, Buenos Aires and the Hospital de Clínicas “José de San Martín”, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, which validates the position that diabetic peripheral neuropathy, especially in the feet…
The article titled “Neuropad for the detection of cardiovascular autonomic neuropathy in patients with type 2 diabetes” (Mendivil et al., 2016) discusses the prevalence and impact of cardiovascular autonomic neuropathy (CAN) in patients with type 2 diabetes. The authors evaluate…
The article titled “The diagnostic accuracy of Neuropad® for assessing large and small fiber diabetic neuropathy” (Ponirakis et al., 2014) discusses the use of Neuropad® as a diagnostic tool for diabetic peripheral neuropathy. The study compared the diagnostic performance of…
