The association between hyperlipidemia, lipid-lowering drugs and diabetic peripheral neuropathy in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus

• Kuo-Cheng Chang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Kuo-Cheng Chang, Yen-Wei Pai

  Roles Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Neurological Institute, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan

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• Yen-Wei Pai ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Kuo-Cheng Chang, Yen-Wei Pai

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Neurological Institute, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Department of Post-Baccalaureate Medicine, College of Medicine, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan

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• Ching-Heng Lin,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Medical Research, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan

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• I-Te Lee,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Supervision

  Affiliations Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan

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• Ming-Hong Chang

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: cmh500809@gmail.com

  Affiliations Neurological Institute, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Department of Post-Baccalaureate Medicine, College of Medicine, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7699-334X

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