Why the study?
Does pupillary responsiveness to sympathomimetics differ between type 1 diabetic patients with and without complications and healthy subjects?
Population
47 type 1 diabetic patients and 20 healthy subjects.
Comparison
Pharmacological pupillary tests using cocaine… vs Healthy subjects and diabetic patients without…
Design
Cross-sectional
Authors
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May flag early autonomic neuropathy in complicated T1D; hypothesis-generating for cardiac risk before prospective validation.
Does pupillary responsiveness to sympathomimetics differ between type 1 diabetic patients with and without complications and healthy subjects?
Pupillary sympathetic denervation can be rapidly assessed using the cocaine test and may serve as an early sign of autonomic neuropathy before cardiac manifestation in type 1 diabetes.
Pittasch et al. (2002) studied this question.
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