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We were interested to read the review article by Afshan et al. on autonomic dysregulation in patients with chronic neck pain (CNP) 1. A total of eight studies were included in the review, although the ...

My recent pulmonary function test (PFT) results indicated a decline in all the areas it measured. That’s not unusual for me. In the spring, my PFT numbers had declined, as well, leading to a diagnosis ...

Yes, it is possible for a person with cirrhosis to receive typical liver function test results, although this is rare. The United Kingdom’s National Health Service (NHS) notes that liver function ...

Background: Patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) are at higher risk of cardiovascular disease. A dysfunctional autonomic nervous system may be the underlying cause. However, very few studies ...

Purpose: In 177 patients with ischemic heart disease and elevated periosteal pain sensitivity of the chest bone indicative of autonomic nervous system dysfunction, we test the hypotheses, (i) there is ...

Whether clinicians are accurately diagnosing thyroid disease was at issue for Chinese researchers who demonstrated that adding subgroup differences according to age, sex, or race when testing for ...

Introduction Hereditary or variant transthyretin amyloidosis (ATTRv) is a progressive disease with disabling autonomic symptoms. With effective disease modifying treatments (DMT) markers of disease ...