Quantitative vibration perception thresholds in normal and diabetic Chinese: Influence of age, height and body mass index

Chii Min Hwu; Hsing Yi Chang; Jim Yi Chen; Shu Li Wang; Low Tone Ho; Wen Harn Pan

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Quantitative vibration perception thresholds in normal and diabetic Chinese: Influence of age, height and body mass index

Chii Min Hwu, Hsing Yi Chang, Jim Yi Chen, Shu Li Wang, Low Tone Ho, Wen Harn Pan

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In this study, we established normality data of vibration perception thresholds (VPT) in a Chinese population. Over 1,400 healthy subjects were recruited to create age-related centile charts of VPT after pretesting for reliability. Another 273 diabetic (DM) patients were recruited to assess the impact of age, height and body mass index (BMI) on VPT values in DM and non-DM subjects. The present study is the first one which reports normality data of VPT from a large Chinese population. The VPT values were higher in male and female DM patients than in the non-DM counterparts. Age significantly contributed to the variance of VPT in both DM and non-DM subjects. Height was positively associated with VPT in men, so was BMI in non-DM subjects with much smaller magnitudes of effect than for age. Copyright

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	271-278
Number of pages	8
Journal	Neuroepidemiology
Volume	21
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1159/000065526
Publication status	Published - 2002
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Age
Body mass index
Chinese
Diabetic neuropathy
Height
Vibration perception thresholds

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Epidemiology
Clinical Neurology

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