A Comparison of Screening Tools for the Early Detection of Peripheral Neuropathy in Adults with and without Type 2 Diabetes

Table 3

NC-stat DPNCheck Spearman’s partial correlations (log transformed).

	SNAP-R	SNAP-L	SNCV-R	SNCV-L
	Tuning fork
On/off	0.221	0.137	0.235	−0.089
value	0.121	0.235	0.106	0.319
Timed R	−0.066	−0.019	−0.019	−0.099
value	0.365	0.461	0.459	0.302
Timed L	−0.063	−0.052	−0.018	−0.081
value	0.371	0.392	0.463	0.355
Monofilaments
Total 1 g	0.364	0.312	−0.06	−0.141
value	0.024	0.047	0.377	0.229
1 g R	0.229	0.206	0.024	0.077
value	0.112	0.138	0.451	0.342
1 g L	0.393	0.301	−0.191	−0.313
value	0.016	0.053	0.155	0.046
Total 10 g	0.098	0.088	0.032	0.03
value	0.304	0.321	0.432	0.438
10 g R	0.096	0.16	0.005	−0.066
value	0.306	0.2	0.489	0.364
10 g L	0.137	0.07	0.031	0.054
value	0.235	0.356	0.436	0.388
QOL-DN
Total	−0.317	−0.311	0.162	−0.117
value	0.044	0.047	0.197	0.269
Symptoms	−0.332	−0.375	0.213	−0.003
value	0.036	0.021	0.129	0.493
Large fiber	−0.297	−0.284	0.107	−0.163
value	0.056	0.064	0.286	0.195
Small fiber	−0.241	−0.187	−0.311	−0.366
value	0.099	0.161	0.047	0.023
ADLS	−0.354	−0.263	0.104	−0.065
value	0.028	0.08	0.293	0.366
Autonomic	−0.236	−0.245	0.149	−0.044
value	0.105	0.096	0.216	0.408

Accounts for HbA_1C, age, and waist (cm). Significance at .