Frequency of Diabetes Mellitus in Patients with Lumbar Spinal Canal Stenosis

نویسندگان

1 Department of Neurosurgery, School of Medicine, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran.

2 Diabetes Research Center, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran

3 School of Medicine, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran

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چکیده

Abstract Objective: Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a systemic disease affecting different tissues. Hyperglycemia due to DM can lead to degenerative changes in spinal tissue. Also low data have examined the prevalence of diabetes mellitus in lumbar spinal canal stenosis individuals. Therefore the purpose of this study was determining the frequency of ...