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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2024 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Muscle Nerve. 2023 Mar 1;68(1):29–38. doi: 10.1002/mus.27793

Table 2 -.

Number and Percent of Healthy Subjects (HS) and Persons with Diabetes (DM) with Abnormality of Composite Measures of Attributes of Nerve Conduction Meeting DCCT Criteria

3 HS Cohorts Combined 3 DM Cohorts Combined Difference in % Fisher’s Exact Test
Total n n (%) Abnormal Total n n (%) Abnormal p
1. ≥ 2 pts* of any of > 1 Nerve of Fibular, Ulnar or Tibial CMAPs, MNCVs or MNDLs or Sural SNAP or SNDL 393 44 (11.20) 379 189 (49.87) 38.87 <0.0001
2. ≥ 2 pts of any of > 1 of Fibular, Tibial or Ulnar MNCV or Sural SNDL 394 15 (3.81) 376 151 (40.16) 36.35 <0.0001
3. ≥ 2 pts of any of > 1 of Ulnar or Fibular MNCV 395 8 (2.03) 383 83 (21.67) 19.64 <0.0001
4. ≥ 2 pts of any of > 1 of Fibular, Ulnar or Tibial CMAPs or Sural SNAP 395 9 (2.28) 388 72 (18.56) 16.28 <0.0001
5. ≥ 2 pts of any of > 1 of Ulnar or Tibial F-wave 394 10 (2.54) 380 48 (12.63) 10.09 <0.0001
6. ≥ 2 pts of any of > 1 of Ulnar MNCV or Sural SNAP 395 4 (1.01) 388 28 (7.22) 6.21 <0.0001

MNCV = motor nerve conduction velocity, F-wave = F-wave latency, SNDL = sensory nerve distal latency, SNAP = sensory nerve action potential amplitude, CMAP = compound muscle action potential amplitude, MNDL = motor nerve distal latency

*

> 5th \ < 95th = 0 pts (points); > 1st to ≤ 5th \ ≥ 95th to < 99th = 1 pt; ≤ 1st \ ≥ 99th = 2 pts

McNemar’s test (S; p) of differences of frequencies of abnormality between pairs of composite measures of attributes of nerve conduction: 1 vs. 2 (29.00; <0.0001), 1 vs. 4 (117.00; <0.0001), 2 vs. 4 (64.88; <0.0001)