[Prevalence and risk factors for the development of diabetic neuropathy].

Neuropathology is one of the most commonly encountered complications of diabetes mellitus. But we are lacking in exact estimates of the nervous system affliction incidence rates in patients with diabetes mellitus in countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States. Our objective in this work was to study prevalence of diabetic neuropathy and to identify factors predisposing to formation of the above complication of diabetes in the Prednistrovye Region of Moldova. Overall 250 patients with diabetes mellitus were examined. Relatedness has been revealed of the degree of peripheral neuropathy to the level of glycated hemoglobin (Hb(AIc)) reflecting the condition of long-term compensation of diabetes mellitus, with interrelation having been established of progression of the above distress degree of severity, with duration of diabetes mellitus, blood plasma reduction in the content of high-density lipoproteins, augmentation of low-density lipoproteins and triglycerides as well. High incidence of neuropathy attests to the need for us to carry out special medical and social measures aimed to improve the therapy of patients with diabetes mellitus and to early recognize the distress in order that we might lessen the risk for development of chronic complications of disease.