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... might have a higher rate of atrial fibrillation. The authors theorize that diabetes may affect the cardiac autonomic nerves in much the same way the disease damages peripheral nerves and causes a condition known as peripheral neuropathy. Not ...
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... neurological or psychiatric disorders, alcoholism. In diabetics, absence of chest-pain is often attributed to autonomic neuropathy, leading to a defective anginal warning system, i.e. the nerves carrying pain stimuli to the brain are defective and ...
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Dennis Paul, PhD, Associate Professor of Pharmacology, and Harry Gould, MD, PhD, the Tom Benson Professor of Neurology at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans, have been awarded one of two scientific research grants made in 2009 by The Neuropathy Association.
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... lessons (not to touch a hot stove, for example). People with a rare genetic disorder known as hereditary sensory autonomic neuropathy (HSAN) type V feel no pain, however, and may never learn those lessons. Eight-year-old Gabby Gingras constantly and ...
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