2023-04-18 08:30:00
This is indicated by a data analysis by the University of Malmö from more than 50,000 Swedish diabetes patients. It was previously known that snap fingers, stiffness of the hand and finger joints and Dupuytren’s disease, in which the connective tissue of the palm of the hand scars, contributes Diabetes occur frequently. Apparently, however, other hand problems such as carpal and cubital tunnel syndrome and arthrosis of the first carpometacarpal joint (CMC-1) can also be triggered by diabetes. As the analysis of the Swedish disease register showed, all of the above diagnoses occurred more frequently in type 1 and type 2 diabetics than in the rest of the population. Above all, the “snapping finger”, also called snap finger or trigger finger, is found disproportionately often in diabetes. In the analysis, 14 percent of type 1 diabetics were affected, more than nine times as many as women without diabetes. The accumulations could be due, among other things, to the fact that when blood sugar is high, saccharified compounds (advanced glycation endoproducts – AGE) are deposited in nerves and tissue, which impede the blood supply to the nerves, the authors suspect.
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