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The neuropathies are amongst the commonest chronic complications of diabetes mellitus and can be a presenting feature of type 2 diabetes. Neuropathy in diabetes is often referred to as “the neuropathies”, as they present may in many different forms, and especially in sensorimotor neuropathy, on occasions without symptoms. As well as involving the peripheral nervous system, the commonest form of which is the chronic sensorimotor diabetic peripheral neuropathy, there is increasing evidence as will be presented in this edition, that the central nervous system may also be involved. Any area receiving an autonomic innervation may be affected by the autonomic neuropathies which, if searched for, are not uncommon. The neuropathies cannot be excluded without a careful clinical examination and this is very important to remember in this period of time during the global pandemic of COVID-19. It is often said that nothing is new in medicine and most of it is re-discovered. Thus, I thought it would be useful in this introduction to briefly review the history of the neuropathies in diabetes.
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Boulton, A.J.M. (2023). Introduction. In: Tesfaye, S., Gibbons, C.H., Malik, R.A., Veves, A. (eds) Diabetic Neuropathy. Contemporary Diabetes. Humana, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-15613-7_1
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