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Four upper extremity disorders — frozen shoulder, carpal tunnel syndrome, trigger finger, and Dupuytren contracture — are common in patients with type 1 diabetes. In a survey of 2200 Danish patients (mean age, 56) with longstanding type 1 diabetes, researchers asked them whether healthcare providers had diagnosed any of those disorders.
The lifetime prevalences of receiving diagnoses of frozen shoulder, carpal tunnel syndrome, trigger finger, and Dupuytren contractures were 31%, 22%, 25%, and 15%, respectively; 55% of patients had one or more of these conditions. Each diagnosis was roughly twice as prevalent in these patients as in similarly aged control respondents without type 1 diabetes. Patients with histories of microvascular or macrova…