Severe symptomatic postprandial hypotension in a patient with autonomic dysfunction may be driven by the cardiovascular effects of high circulating insulin rather than hypoglycemia.
May implicate insulin (not hypoglycemia) in postprandial hypotension with autonomic dysfunction; single case leaves open confirmation in prospective studies.
Postprandial hypotensionPostural or ortostatic hypotension is well known, but severe sympto- matic arterial hypotension provoked by eating has so far not been described.
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