Epidemiology of peripheral neuropathy.

Peripheral neuropathy occurs as a component of several common and many rare diseases.It is heterogenous in aetiology, diverse in pathology, and varied in severity.The term peripheral neuropathy includes symmetric polyneuropathy, single and multiple mono- neuropathy, and radiculopathy.Further classi- fication depends on a mixture of phenomenological, pathological, and genetic or other aetiological features.All of these things cause problems for epidemiologists who, without agreed definitions of what con- stitutes a case, find it difficult to describe patterns of occurrence of disease.Perhaps it is not very surprising that information about the descriptive epidemiology of peripheral neu- ropathy derived from population based studies is scarce.a cohort of incident cases of non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus was followed up

# Peripheral Neuropathies and Disorders # Medicine # Hereditary Neurological Disorders # Neuroscience # Peripheral Nerve Disorders

Christopher N Martyn, Richard AC Hughes (1997). "Epidemiology of peripheral neuropathy.". Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry. https://doi.org/10.1136/jnnp.62.4.310