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Article History

Received: 1 September 2023

Accepted: 10 November 2023

First Online: 8 January 2024

Acknowledgements

: The Total Neuropathy Score was provided to AVK by D. Cornblath and Johns Hopkins University. We are grateful to the staff and patients of the Diabetes Centre at Prince of Wales Hospital, Sydney.

: The data that support the findings of this study are not publicly available due to institutional ethics review board restrictions (Human Research Ethics Committee of the South Eastern Sydney Local Health District HREC Ref. 14/012).

: This research was supported by an Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarship.

: The authors declare that there are no relationships or activities that might bias, or be perceived to bias, their work.

: RD, TI and AVK were involved in study design. RD, ATKL, AMP and K-LM carried out recruitment of participants. RD and ATKL performed the data collection. RD, TI, AMP, K-LM, NCGK and AVK were involved in data interpretation and TI, AMP, K-LM and NCGK were involved in discussion of the data. RD, TI and AVK wrote the manuscript. K-LM, AMP, ATKL and NCGK critically reviewed the manuscript for intellectual content. All authors approved the final version of the manuscript. AK is the guarantor of this work. As such, he had full access to all the data in the study and takes responsibility for the integrity of the data and the accuracy of the data analysis.

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