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Example of Longitudinal Studies

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In this chapter, we look beyond the first test and provide sample longitudinal studies. Here we attempt to answer the questions: “Why test?” “How to intervene?” “What are the expected outcomes?” As examples we offer a diabetic and a hypertensive patient as examples.

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  • Autonomic Dysfunction
  • Exercise Intolerance
  • Cardiac Autonomic Neuropathy
  • Diabetic Autonomic Neuropathy
  • Supine Hypertension

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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). Example of Longitudinal Studies. In: Clinical Autonomic Dysfunction. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07371-2_31

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