Serum Uric Acid Levels Are Related to Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy, Especially for Motor Conduction Velocity of Tibial Nerve in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Patients.

"Conflicts of Interest The authors report no conflicts of interest in this work."

"This work was supported by the Scientific Research Start-up Funds of The First Affiliated Hospital of USTC (HZ, RC2021178) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (WW, 32271176; WW, 81971264; WZ, 82270863)."

"This cross-section study was conducted in The First Affiliated Hospital of University of Science and Technology of China (USTC). 106 patients certificated the standard of T2DM were recruited. In these individuals, 57 patients with T2DM were diagnosed as DPN and 49 T2DM patients without DPN. All participants were informed about the process of this experiment and given a handwritten signature on the informed consent before the experiment. The study was approved by the Ethics Committee of The First Affiliated Hospital of USTC and complied with the Declaration of Helsinki. This study was registered on the Chinese Clinical Trial Registry (ChiCTR2100046905)."