The goal of this clinical trial is to investigate if trimetazidine can improve clinical outcomes of patients with diabetic peripheral neuropathy. The main questions it aims to answer are: Does trimetazidine improve the symptoms of diabetic peripheral neuropathy? Does trimetazidine affect endothelin-1 levels? Participants in the interventional arm will receive trimetazidine tablets 35 mg twice daily for three months.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
60
trimetazidine 35 mg oral tablets twice daily
National Institute of Diabetes
Cairo, Egypt
RECRUITINGEndothelin-1 levels
Time frame: at baseline assessment and at 12 weeks
DN4 score (neuropathic pain scale).
Time frame: at baseline assessment and at 12 weeks
Toronto clinical scoring systems for assessing the peripheral diabetic neuropathy severity
Time frame: at baseline assessment and at 12 weeks
Numeric rating scale for pain assessment
Time frame: at baseline assessment and at 12 weeks
side effects
Time frame: every 4 weeks and at the end of the study at 12 weeks.
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