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Received: 22 November 2024

Accepted: 4 February 2025

First Online: 7 March 2025

Acknowledgements

: The authors gratefully acknowledge the team at the Prince of Wales Diabetes Centre for their support in participant recruitment. We would like to thank D. Cornblath and Johns Hopkins University for providing the Total Neuropathy Score to A. Krishnan.

: 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).

: Open Access funding enabled and organized by CAUL and its Member Institutions. This research received no specific grant from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.

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

: ATT was involved in recruitment, data collection, data interpretation and manuscript composition. JS was involved in data collection and data analysis. SST was involved in data collection. TI was involved in data interpretation. AMP and K-LM were the treating clinicians of recruited participants and were involved in patient recruitment and data collection. MM, RD and AVK supervised data collection, data interpretation and data analysis. AVK was involved in study design, data interpretation, manuscript composition and is the guarantor of this work. As such AVK 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. All authors contributed to the drafting of the article or critically reviewed it for important intellectual content. All authors approved the final version of the manuscript.