Prevalence of peripheral neuropathy in the Parsi community of Bombay

Neurology. 1991 Aug;41(8):1315-7. doi: 10.1212/wnl.41.8.1315.

Abstract

We carried out a door-to-door survey to screen for neurologic diseases, including peripheral neuropathy, in a community of 14,010 Parsis living in housing colonies in Bombay, India. The most common neurologic disorder was peripheral neuropathy with 334 cases (2,384 cases/100,000 population). The most common neuropathy was compressive, with diabetes the most common noncompressive etiology. There was no leprosy, and nutritional neuropathies were rare.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Age Factors
  • Humans
  • India / epidemiology
  • Iran / ethnology
  • Middle Aged
  • Nerve Compression Syndromes / classification
  • Nerve Compression Syndromes / complications
  • Peripheral Nervous System Diseases / epidemiology*
  • Peripheral Nervous System Diseases / ethnology
  • Prevalence
  • Religion
  • Sex Factors