title: Recognizing and treating diabetic autonomic neuropathy.
abstract: Diabetic autonomic neuropathy can cause heart disease, gastrointestinal symptoms, genitourinary disorders, and metabolic disease. Strict glycemic control can slow the onset of diabetic autonomic neuropathy and sometimes reverse it. Pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic therapies are available to treat symptoms.
authors.affiliation: The Strelitz Diabetes Research Institutes, Department of Internal Medicine and Anatomy/Neurobiology, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, USA.
authors.forename: A I
authors.initials: AI
authors.lastname: Vinik
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Erbas
mesh_terms: D001342:Autonomic Nervous System Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis; D003929:Diabetic Neuropathies / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D007003:Hypoglycemia / Q000209:etiology; D012791:Shy-Drager Syndrome / Q000209:etiology