ArticleJournal of clinical neurology (Seoul, Korea)2015
On the Severity of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome: Diabetes or Metabolic Syndrome.
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- The causal relationship between thyroid dysfunction and carpal tunnel syndrome: A Mendelian randomization study.Medicine · 2025Article
- Prevalence of carpal tunnel syndrome in patients with long-term type 2 diabetes mellitus.Heliyon · 2022Article
- Electrodiagnostic Testing and Nerve Ultrasound of the Carpal Tunnel in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes.Journal of clinical medicine · 2022Article
- Prevalence and Associated Factors of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Among Diabetic Patients in Arba Minch General Hospital, South West Ethiopia, 2021.Diabetes, metabolic syndrome and obesity : targets and therapy · 2022Article
- Interfascicular Gliding Dysfunction Relation with Focal Neuropathy in Diabetic Patients with Carpal Tunnel Syndrome.Journal of hand and microsurgery · 2022Review
- The relationship of serum lipid profiles and obesity with the severity of carpal tunnel syndrome.The Pan African medical journal · 2021Article
- Subjective Outcomes of Carpal Tunnel Release in Patients with Diabetes and Patients without Diabetes.Journal of hand and microsurgery · 2020Article
- Acupuncture plus night splint for quality of life and disability in patients with carpal tunnel syndrome: a randomized controlled trial.Integrative medicine research · 2019Article
- Electrophysiologic severity of carpal tunnel syndrome in diabetic patients of the Saudi population.Neurosciences (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) · 2019Article
- Entrapment neuropathies in diabetes mellitus.World journal of diabetes · 2016Review
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Abstract
background and purposeCarpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) is the most common entrapment neuropathy. Although its etiology is unknown, certain conditions are commonly associated with CTS, such as obesity, arthritis, hypothyroidism, diabetes mellitus, trauma, mass lesions, amyloidosis, and sarcoidosis. We aimed to determine the association between metabolic syndrome and CTS, and we compared the severity of CTS between patients with diabetes (and no concomitant metabolic syndrome) and patients with metabolic syndrome.
methodsTwo hundred patients with a clinically and electrophysiological confirmed diagnosis of CTS were included in the study. Their demographic characteristics and severity of CTS were analyzed according to the presence or the absence of metabolic syndrome. Differences in the electrophysiological findings were evaluated between the following four groups: 1) metabolic syndrome alone (n=52), 2) diabetes alone (n=20), 3) combined metabolic syndrome and diabetes (n=44), and 4) no metabolic syndrome or diabetes (n=84).
resultsCTS was more severe in the patients with metabolic syndrome than those without this syndrome. The electrophysiological findings were worse in patients with metabolic syndrome alone than in those with diabetes alone and those without diabetes and metabolic syndrome.
conclusionsCTS appears to be more severe in patients with metabolic syndrome than patients with diabetes. Diabetes is one of the well-known risk factors for CTS, but other components of metabolic syndrome may have a greater effect on the severity of CTS.
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