Open AccessPeripheral Neuropathy and All-Cause and Cardiovascular Mortality in U.S. Adults
Author(s) -
Caitlin W. Hicks,
Dan Wang,
Kunihiro Matsushita,
B. Gwen Windham,
Elizabeth Selvin
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
annals of internal medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.839
H-Index - 390
eISSN - 1539-3704
pISSN - 0003-4819
DOI - 10.7326/m20-1340
Subject(s) - medicine , diabetes mellitus , hazard ratio , national health and nutrition examination survey , population , incidence (geometry) , proportional hazards model , cohort study , cohort , prospective cohort study , cause of death , disease , confidence interval , endocrinology , physics , environmental health , optics
Growing evidence indicates that peripheral neuropathy (PN) is common even in the absence of diabetes . However, the clinical sequelae of PN have not been quantified in the general population.