It’s most frequently recognized disease-associated cause is diabetes. Gastroparesis occurs because the nerves that move food through the digestive tract are damaged, so muscles don’t work ...

High blood glucose from diabetes can damage this nerve. In fact, may people with gastroparesis also have diabetes. Surgery to the abdomen or small intestines can also cause injury to the vagus nerve.

It can also result from gastrointestinal infections like norovirus and rotavirus, or nerve injury. Around one-third of cases are idiopathic (of unknown origin). For this reason, there is no ...

In the atrium, parasympathetic nerves are more densely distributed than sympathetic ... Given the chronic nature of vasodepressor vasovagal syncope (VVS), a longer follow-up period would be crucial to ...

Dysautonomia refers to a group of disorders involving nerves that control heart rate ... Neurocardiogenic syncope (NCS) is the most common form of dysautonomia, also known as vasovagal syncope. NCS ...

New research reveals that the vagus nerve, which helps regulate appetite, interacts with socio-economic status to influence ...

"Our vagus nerve really affects a lot of things," Dr. Allyson Coffin said. "If it's off balance, you will notice." ...

Published in the journal Food Quality and Preference, new research highlights how physiological signals, particularly those ...

Cannabis users with type 1 diabetes (T1D) can be misdiagnosed with diabetic gastroparesis on the basis of symptoms or presentation with or without gastric emptying tests; however, cannabinoid ...