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ArticleLife (Basel, Switzerland)2023

Inflammatory Markers Used as Predictors of Subclinical Atherosclerosis in Patients with Diabetic Polyneuropathy.

Adrian Vasile Mureșan, Alexandru Tomac, Diana Roxana Opriș, Bogdan Corneliu Bandici, Cătălin Mircea Coșarcă, Diana Carina Covalcic, Ioana Hălmaciu, Orsolya-Zsuzsa Akácsos-Szász, Flavia Rădulescu, Krisztina Lázár and 2 more

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Article in Life (Basel, Switzerland), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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7citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.9field-weighted citation impact, top 13% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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7 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 9 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

12 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Adrian Vasile MureșanClinic of Vascular Surgery, Mures County Emergency Hospital, 540136 Targu Mures, Romania.
Alexandru TomacClinic of Plastic Surgery, Emergency Clinical Hospital Saint Spiridon, 700111 Iasi, Romania.
Diana Roxana OprișEmergency Institute for Cardiovascular Diseases and Transplantation (IUBCVT) of Targu Mures, 540136 Targu Mures, Romania.
Bogdan Corneliu BandiciClinic of Vascular Surgery, Mures County Emergency Hospital, 540136 Targu Mures, Romania.
Cătălin Mircea CoșarcăClinic of Vascular Surgery, Mures County Emergency Hospital, 540136 Targu Mures, Romania.
Diana Carina CovalcicClinic of Vascular Surgery, Mures County Emergency Hospital, 540136 Targu Mures, Romania.
Ioana HălmaciuDepartment of Radiology, Mures County Emergency Hospital, 540136 Targu Mures, Romania.
Orsolya-Zsuzsa Akácsos-SzászDoctoral School of Medicine and Pharmacy, George Emil Palade University of Medicine, Pharmacy, Science and Technology of Targu Mures, 540142 Targu Mures, Romania.
Flavia RădulescuClinical Department of Endocrinology, Mures County Emergency Hospital, 540136 Targu Mures, Romania.ORCID 0000-0002-6269-3370
Krisztina LázárClinical Department of Endocrinology, Mures County Emergency Hospital, 540136 Targu Mures, Romania.
Adina StoianDepartment of Pathophysiology, George Emil Palade University of Medicine, Pharmacy, Science and Technology of Targu Mures, 540139 Targu Mures, Romania.ORCID 0000-0001-6862-4926
Mariana Cornelia TilincaDepartment of Diabetes, Nutrition and Metabolic Diseases, Mures County Emergency Hospital, 540136 Targu Mures, Romania.
Universitatea de Medicină, Farmacie, Științe și Tehnologie „George Emil Palade” din Târgu Mureș · ROSpitalul Clinic Judetean de Urgenta Târgu Mureş · ROSpitalul Clinic Judeţean de Urgenţe "Sf. Spiridon" Iaşi · RO

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundperipheral arterial disease (PAD) is identified late in diabetic patients because, in the majority of cases, it is associated with diabetic peripheral neuropathy, resulting in little or no symptoms, or symptoms that are completely neglected.

methodsIn this study were enrolled all patients over 18 years of age, with diabetes mellitus type II for more than a year with poor glycemic control, diagnosed with diabetic polyneuropathy admitted to the Diabetology Department, Emergency County Hospital of Targu Mures, Romania between January 2020 and March 2023. We divided the patients into two groups, based on the presence or absence of subclinical atherosclerosis in the lower limb, named "SA" and "non-SA".

resultsPatients in the SA group were older (

conclusionsthe inflammatory markers, NLR, MLR, PLR, and SII, being cheap and easy to collect in routine medical practice from the standard blood tests, could be an important step in predicting vascular outcomes in diabetic patients and the disease's progression, playing a key role in follow-up visits in type-2 diabetic patients and PAD patients.

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atherosclerosisdiabetic polyneuropathyinflammatory markersMLRNLRPLRSII

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