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  • Title: Do rheological variables play a role in diabetic peripheral neuropathy?
    Author: MacRury SM, Lockhart JC, Small M, Weir AI, MacCuish AC, Lowe GD.
    Journal: Diabet Med; 1991 Apr; 8(3):232-6. PubMed ID: 1828738.
    Abstract:
    Whole blood viscosity and its determinants were measured in diabetic patients with and without peripheral neuropathy to assess whether these variables could have a role in the microvascular aetiology of diabetic peripheral neuropathy. Although corrected whole blood viscosity at high and low shear rates (5.29 +/- 0.51 and 21.10 +/- 3.03 mPa s), plasma viscosity (1.41 +/- 0.13 mPa s), and red cell filtration ratio (0.49 +/- 0.04) in diabetic patients were significantly different from non-diabetic control subjects (high shear rate 4.83 +/- 0.54, low shear rate 17.36 +/- 2.78, plasma 1.29 +/- 0.09 mPa s, all p less than 0.001, and red cell filtration ratio 0.55 +/- 0.03, p less than 0.001) there were no significant differences between diabetic patients with neuropathy and those without. Blood rheology is altered to a similar extent in diabetic patients with and without neuropathy.
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