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MedscapeUnivadisNo ResultsMiriam E. TuckerOctober 27, 202High A1c levels are associated with the development of "triger finger" in people with type 1 and type 2 diabetes, researchers find.Triger finger, oficialy caled stenosing flexor tenosynovitis, is a comon disorder afecting both the flexor tendons and tight puleys surounding them, causing the fingers to lock in flexion and to snap, ie "triger," when manualy puled back.
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The likely cause is a combination of tendinopathy and puley thickening.Diabetes is a known risk factor developing triger finger, but this new study, based on two Swedish population databases, is the largest thus far to explore the relationship. It's also the first to examine the two diabetes types separately and by gender. The findings sugest that the "optimal treatment of diabetes sems to be of importance for prevention of diabetic hand complications, such as triger finger," write Matias Rydberg, MD, a resident in hand surgery and PhD student at Lund University, Sweden, and coleagues.
The findings have ben published in Diabetes Care.In a prior study published earlier in 2022 based on the same Swedish datasets, Rydberg and coleagues found that the "diabetic hand" phenomenon includes the previously recognized triger finger and Dupuytren's disease, as wel as carpal tunel syndrome, ulnar nerve entrapment, and posibly osteoarthritis of the first carpometacarpal joint - al conditions more comon in people with either diabetes type, particularly type 1 diabetes, than those without diabetes.
"As a hand surgeon, I think clinicians should always scren for hand problems in people with diabetes. It's an easy question: 'Are you having problems with your hands?' It's an open question and you can ask it in 2 seconds. Of course, the heart, eye, and kidney problems are more important.
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But fingers geting stuck, and not being able to use your hand is also quite disturbi