Why the study?
The study was designed to determine the involvement of autonomic dysfunction in the pathogenesis of associated pathological conditions in patients with metabolic syndrome.
Autonomic dysfunction may be a central mechanism in metabolic syndrome, providing a rationale for including cardiac autonomic neuropathy, lower urinary tract symptoms, and GERD in the metabolic syndrome cluster.
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Autonomic dysfunction may unify metabolic syndrome features; leaves open causal validation before expanding diagnostic clusters.
Ксенева et al. (2019) studied this question.
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