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DIABETES CARE
Volume 30, Issue 10, Pages 2619-2625Publisher
AMER DIABETES ASSOC
DOI: 10.2337/dc06-2479
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- NINDS NIH HHS [NS36797] Funding Source: Medline
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OBJECTIVE - Assessing clinimetric performance of diabetic sensorimotor polyneuropathy (DSPN) end points in single and multicenter trials. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS - Assessed were placebo-treated patients with DSPN in the Viatris and Eli Lilly trials and an epiderniologic cohort. RESULTS - Test reproducibility in clinical trial cohorts (r(1) similar to 0.7-0.85) approached that in the epidemiologic cohort (r(1) similar to 0.85-0.95). Associations between pairs of end points explained < 10% of the variability of data (sometimes 15-35%), being higher in the epidemiologic cohort and the Viatris trial than in the Lilly trial. Most end points did not show monotonic worsening over 4 years. However, sural nerve amplitude and peroneal motor conduction velocity did. A nerve conduction score (Sigma 5 NC rids [5 attributes of nerve conduction expressed as normal deviates]) did not show monotonic worsening in established DSPN. In the epidemiologic cohort followed for 9.5 years, monotonic worsening of small magnitude occurred for sural amplitude, vibration detection threshold, and especially for composite quantitative sensation. CONCLUSIONS- The main reason why it is difficult to demonstrate monotonic worsening of neuropathic end points appears to be a very slow worsening of DSPN, a placebo effect for symptoms and signs, and measurement noise. Demonstrating disease progression in controlled trials of DSPN is more likely when 1) patients with developing rather than established DSPN are selected, 2) type I diabetic patients are preferentially recruited, 3) patients are selected who cannot or will not achieve ideal glycemic control, 4) end points chosen are known to show monotonic worsening, and 5) a restricted number of centers and expert examiners (trained, certified, using standard approaches, and reference values and interactive surveillance of tests) are used.
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