Abstract: Diabetes mellitus is fast turning into one of biggest scourges on modern age. The disease cripples not only the patient but also imposes a huge budgetary health outlay, a burden on third world countries cab ill-afford to expend on. Apart from clinical symptoms and signs, confirming diagnosis is based almost wholly on expensive laboratory investigations. Towards making the screening for disease and its diagnosis simpler, it is suggested that finger nail growth as an external indicator be used as exploited as a tool. Changes in nail shape, color, texture are usually fairly reliable external markers of disease processes. Observations on the appendage form an important component of general physical clinical examination in establishing preliminary diagnosis. Presented in this brief study present are the findings on rate of nail growth as an external clue to the presence of diabetes mellitus. The accelerated rate of growth could be a cost effective reliable mass tool in establishing preliminary diagnosis of the disease in the community. It is surmised that merely measuring the forward shift in voter’s ink mark (applied as a proof of casting a ballot during general elections) one can estimate the rate of growth of the nail – the more rapid the shift, the higher the possibilities of diabetes mellitus.
Keywords: diabetes mellitus, nails, ectoderm, micro-angiopathy.
Title: ACCELERATED NAIL GROWTH IN DIABETICS
Author: ARUNACHALAM KUMAR
International Journal of Healthcare Sciences
ISSN 2348-5728 (Online)
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