The article titled “Correlation between sudomotor function, sweat gland duct size and corneal nerve fiber pathology in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus” (Ishibashi et al., 2014) explores the relationship between sudomotor function, sweat gland duct size, and corneal nerve…
The study titled “Accuracy of the Neuropad Test for the Diagnosis of Distal Symmetric Polyneuropathy in Type 2 Diabetes” (Papanas et al., 2011) discusses the accuracy of the Neuropad test for diagnosing and staging distal symmetric polyneuropathy (DPN) in patients…
The study “Small fiber neuropathy: role in the diagnosis of diabetic sensorimotor polyneuropathy” (Malik et al., 2011) was published on behalf of the Toronto Consensus Panel on Diabetic Neuropathy. The purpose of the study was to: “address whether any definition…
The Bulgarian study “Diagnosis of diabetic neuropathy using simple somatic and a new autonomic (Neuropad) tests in the clinical practice” (Z A Kamenov, J J Petrova, V G Christov) looked at how effective the Neuropad test is for detecting small…
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…
