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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Neurogastroenterol Motil. 2020 Feb 15;32(8):e13810. doi: 10.1111/nmo.13810

TABLE 3.

Comparison of autonomic abnormalities in patients with diabetic vs idiopathic cause of gastroparesis symptoms

Diabetic
(N = 63)		 Idiopathic
(N = 179)		 P
Low resting sympathetic activity 29 (46%) 20 (11%) <.0001
Resting sympathetic excess 3 (5%) 21 (12%) .14
Low resting parasympathetic activity 38 (60%) 29 (16%) <.0001
Resting parasympathetic excess 1 (2%) 19 (11%) .03
Low sympathetic response to challenge 54 (89%) 123 (74%) .02
Challenge sympathetic excess 2 (4%) 16 (12%) .16
Challenge parasympathetic excess 23 (37%) 63 (36%) 1.00