Exocrine Pancreatic Insufficiency in Diabetes Mellitus: A Complication of Diabetic Neuropathy or a Different Type of Diabetes?

Table 2

Results of indirect pancreatic function tests in patients with diabetes mellitus.

Author	Year	Subjects/diabetes type	Methods	Results
Hardt and Kloer [23]	1998	128; type 1+2	Fecal chymotrypsin; Fecal elastase 1	45% <6 U/I; 46% <200 μg/g
Hardt et al. [15]	2000	39 type 1; 77 type 2	Fecal elastase 1	74% <200 μg/g; 36% <200 μg/g
Icks et al. [18]	2001	112 type 1	Fecal elastase 1	54.5% <200 μg/g
Rathmann et al. [17]	2001	544 type 2	Fecal elastase 1	30.3% <200 μg/g
Hardt et al. [16]	2003	323 type 1; 697 type 2	Fecal elastase 1	51% <200 μg/g; 35% < 200 μg/g
Nunes et al. [24]	2003	42 type 1+2	Fecal elastase 1	36% <200 μg/g
Yilmaztepe et al. [25]	2005	32 type 2	Fecal elastase 1	28% <200 μg/g
Cavalot et al. [19]	2004	66 type 1	Fecal elastase 1	26% <200 μg/g