Prevalent neuropathy in a cohort of HIV-infected Kenyan sex workers using antiretroviral drugs
The Pan African Medical Journal, 2016 INTRODUCTION: several risk factors including stavudine and age have been strongly associated with polyneuropathy. However, conflicting data exist on height as an independent risk factor in polyneuropathy.
Frank Ndaks Ndakala +5 more
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A brain-based pain facilitation mechanism contributes to painful diabetic polyneuropathy [PDF]
, 2018 The descending pain modulatory system represents one of the oldest and most fundamentally important neurophysiological mechanisms relevant to pain. Extensive work in animals and humans has shown how a functional imbalance between the facilitatory and ...
Segerdahl, Andrew +15 more
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Distal sensory polyneuropathy in South Africans infected with human immunodeficiency virus : a cross-sectional analysis of a community cohort [PDF]
, 2009 Includes bibliographical references (leaves 93-107).Introduction: Distal sensory polyneuropathy (DSP), the most common neurological complication of HIV infection, is related to either HIV or antiretroviral therapy (ART).
Maritz, Jean
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Upsala Journal of Medical Sciences, 2022 Background: Although neuropathic pain is a significant problem in polyneuropathy, the underlying molecular mechanisms are poorly understood. The endogenous bioactive lipids 2-arachidonoyl-glycerol (2-AG), oleoylethanolamide (OEA), palmitoylethanolamide ...
Jonas Lind +3 more
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Distal sensory polyneuropathy in HIV/TB co-infection : the role of vitamin B6 and N-acetyltransferase 2 genetic variation [PDF]
, 2012 Both human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection and tuberculosis (TB) are complicated by a painful distal sensory polyneuropathy (DSP) that may be due to virus-related HIV-DSP, antiretroviral toxic neuropathy (ATN) or isoniazid-induced peripheral ...
Centner, Chad
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Pakistan Armed Forces Medical Journal, 2011 Objective: To determine the frequency of peripheral polyneuropathy in patients having diabetes mellitus with symptoms of polyneuropathy using electrodiagnostic procedure.
Sahibzada Nasir Mansoor +4 more
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Increased Prevalence of Polyneuropathy in Parkinson’s Disease Patients: An Observational Study
Journal of Parkinson’s Disease, 2018 Background: The independent contribution of levodopa exposure and Parkinson’s disease (PD) to the risk of polyneuropathy is not established. Objective: This study investigated whether patients with newly diagnosed PD without previous exposure to ...
Christian Conradt +6 more
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AMPLITUDO SENSORY NEURON ACTION POTENTIAL USING AS INSTALLATION OF POLINEUROPATI DIAGNOSIS
Malang Neurology Journal, 2018 Background. Polyneuropathy is the pathologic changes and functional disturbances in the peripheral nervous system. These changes manifest as sign and symptoms such as numbness, burning, allodynia, atrophy, and lose of stimulation responses.
Billi Kinesya +3 more
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Diet quality and chronic axonal polyneuropathy: a population‐based study
Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, 2019 Objective To investigate the association between diet quality and chronic axonal polyneuropathy. Methods Between June 2013 and January 2017, among 1650 participants of the Rotterdam Study (median age 69.1 years, 54.2% women), diet quality was quantified ...
Noor E. Taams +5 more
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Subclinical inflammation and diabetic polyneuropathy. [PDF]
, 2009 Subclinical inflammation represents a risk factor of type 2 diabetes and several diabetes complications, but data on diabetic neuropathies are scarce. Therefore, we investigated whether circulating concentrations of acute-phase proteins, cytokines, and ...
Lankisch, M. +13 more
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