The Composite Autonomic Symptom Score 31 Questionnaire: A Sensitive Test to Detect Risk for Autonomic Neuropathy
Table 2
COMPASS 31 score for groups.
Group score, points
Longstanding diabetes
Early diabetes
Control
value
All groups
Orthostatic
0.0 (0.0-14.0)
0.0 (0.0-0.0)
0.0 (0.0-0.0)
0.23
0.0 (0.0-12.0)
Vasomotor
0.0 (0.0-0.0)
0.0 (0.0-0.0)
0.0 (0.0-0.0)
0.76
0.0 (0.0-0.0)
Secretomotor
4.3 (0.0-6.4)†
0.0 (0.0-0.0)
2.1 (0.0-4.3)
0.03
1.1 (0.0-4.8)
Gastrointestinal
5.4 (2.7-8.9)
1.8 (0.0-6.3)
2.7 (0.0-7.1)
0.06
3.6 (0.9-7.1)
Bladder
1.1 (0.0-2.8)
1.1 (0.0-2.2)
1.1 (0.0-2.2)
0.81
1.1 (0.0-2.2)
Pupillomotor
1.0 (0.3-2.0)
1.0 (0.0-2.0)
1.0 (0.0-1.7)
0.49
1.0 (0.0-1.7)
Total weighted
14.9 (10.8-28.7)††
7.3 (1.6-15.2)
8.6 (4.1-21.6)
0.04
11.9 (4.5-21.6)
Data are medians with interquartile range, values comparing all three groups using the Kruskal-Wallis test. †Significant in pairwise comparison to early diabetes. ††Significant in pairwise comparison to both other groups. For pairwise comparison, the Mann–Whitney test was used.
