Orozco GLP

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ABSTRACT

Diabetes mellitus (DM) is one of the health problems which presents a high prevalence all over the world. Its incidence is expected to grow during the next decades. This disease produces both a high morbidity and mortality too through several micro and macrovasculrar complications, including diabetic neuropathy. This problem consists of a demonstrable disorder, evident or sub-clinic, that occurs under the context of this disease without any other cause of peripheral neuropathy. Diabetic Neuropathy (DN) is the most common symptomatic complication in DM. It includes a group or set of clinical sympotms besides manifestations involving peripheral, somatic and autonomic nerves. Even though the first report on the presence of neuropathy signs on diabetic patients was published in 1798, the first implication of a casual relation between diabetes and peripheral nerve harm was just described in 1864.