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Diabetes has been discussed several times throughout the book. It is arguably one of the most researched chronic diseases regarding autonomic dysfunction. This body of data provides a strong basis for the systemic ways, in part via the autonomic nervous system, that diabetes affects multiple organ systems. This helps as a basis for a model of the autonomic effects of chronic disease in general and therefore as an example of many of the effects of autonomic dysfunction, due to chronic disease, on comorbidities and symptoms secondary to autonomic dysfunction. In this section we focus on diabetes specifically and hypoglycemia effects on the ANS.

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  1. Autonomic Laboratory Department of Cardiology, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    Joseph Colombo PhD

  2. ANSAR Medical Technologies, Inc., Philadelphia, PA, USA

    Joseph Colombo PhD

  3. Department of Medicine, Captain James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center, North Chicago, IL, USA

    Rohit Arora MD, FACC, FAHA, FACP, FSCAI

  4. Department of Cardiology, The Chicago Medical School, North Chicago, IL, USA

    Rohit Arora MD, FACC, FAHA, FACP, FSCAI

  5. Department of Cardiology, Hahnemann Hospital Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    Nicholas L. DePace MD, FACC

  6. Department of Medicine, Eastern Virginia Medical School Strelitz Diabetes Research Center, Norfolk, VA, USA

    Aaron I. Vinik MD, PhD, FCP, MACP

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Colombo, J., Arora, R., DePace, N.L., Vinik, A.I. (2015). Diabetes. In: Clinical Autonomic Dysfunction. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07371-2_21

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