The impact of neuropathic pain and other comorbidities on the quality of life in patients with diabetes

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Abstract

Background

Diabetic polyneuropathy (DPN) is one of the most common complications of diabetes and can exist with or without neuropathic pain. We were interested in how neuropathic pain impairs the quality of life in diabetic patients and what is the role of comorbidities in this condition.

Methods

The study included 80 patients with painful DPN (group “P”) and 80 patients with DPN, but without neuropathic pain (group “D”). Visual analogue scale (VAS) and Leeds assessment of neuropathic symptoms and signs (LANSS) pain scale were used for assessment of neuropathic pain, SF-36 standardized questionnaire for assessment of the quality of life and BDI questionnaire for assessment of depression.

Results

Subjects in group P had statistically significantly lower values compared to group D in all 8 dimensions and both summary values of the SF-36 scale. We ascribe the extremely low results of all parameters of SF-36 scale in group P to painful diabetic polyneuropathy with its complications. The patients in group D showed higher average values in all dimension compared to group P, but also somewhat higher quality of life compared to general population of Croatia in 4 of 8 dimensions, namely vitality (VT), social functioning (SF), role-emotional (RE) and mental health (MH), which was unexpected result.

Clinically, the most pronounced differences between two groups were noted in sleeping disorders and problems regarding micturition and defecation , which were significantly more expressed in group P. The similar situation was with walking distance and color-doppler sonography of carotid arteries, which were significantly worse in group P. Consequently, subjects in group P were more medicated than the patients in group D, particularly with tramadol, antiepileptics and antidepressants.

Conclusion

Painful DPN is a major factor that influences various aspects of quality of life in diabetic patients. Additionally, this study gives an overview of diabetic population in the Republic of Croatia, information that could prove useful in future studies.

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Vesna Dermanovic Dobrota: vesna.djermanovic.dobrota@zg.t-com.hr

Pero Hrabac: phrabac@hiim.hr

Dinko Skegro: dinko.skegro@kb-merkur.hr

Ranko Smiljanic: rtg.smiljanic@gmail.com

Savko Dobrota: savko.dobrota@zg.t-com.hr

Ingrid Prkacin: ingrid.prkacin@gmail.com

Neva Brkljacic: n.brkljacic@gmail.com

Kristijan Peros: kperos@idb.hr

Martina Tomic: martina.tomic@idb.hr

Vesna Lukinovic-Skudar: vesnas@mef.hr

Vanja Basic Kes: vanjakes@net.hr

Journal

Journal ID (nlm-ta): Health Qual Life Outcomes

Journal ID (iso-abbrev): Health Qual Life Outcomes

Title: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes

Publisher: BioMed Central (London )

ISSN (Electronic): 1477-7525

Publication date (Electronic): 3 December 2014

Publication date PMC-release: 3 December 2014

Publication date Collection: 2014

Volume: 12

Issue: 1

Electronic Location Identifier: 171

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[ ]Department of Diabetic Complication, Clinical Hospital Merkur, University Clinic Vuk Vrhovac, Dugi dol 4a, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia

[ ]Croatian Institute for Brain Research, School of Medicine, University of Zagreb, Salata 12, Zagreb, Croatia

[ ]Department of Internal Medicine, Clinical Hospital Merkur, Zajčeva 19, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia

[ ]Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University hospital Center Zagreb, Kišpatićeva 12, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia

[ ]Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, University of Zagreb, Salata 3, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia

[ ]University Department of Neurology, University hospital Center “ Sestre milosrdnice“, Vinogradska 29, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia

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Publisher ID: 171

DOI: 10.1186/s12955-014-0171-7

PMC ID: 4264315

PubMed ID: 25468384

SO-VID: ba976ebf-5956-485c-b987-508465534204

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This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver ( http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.

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Date received : 26 March 2014

Date accepted : 13 November 2014

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Keywords: diabetes,diabetic polyneuropathy,quality of life,comorbidities

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