Effect of vagus nerve stimulation on blood glucose concentration in epilepsy patients - Importance of stimulation parameters
Stauss HM, Daman LM, Rohlf MM, Sainju RK
Physiological Reports · 2019
Key finding
Blood glucose remained stable in epilepsy patients on implanted cervical VNS with standard parameters, but risk of elevation emerged with longer stimulation on-times paired with short off-periods.
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- Condition
- Metabolic
- Stimulation
- tcVNS
- Evidence tier
- Observational / Cohort
- Participants
- 40
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Stauss, H. M., Daman, L. M., Rohlf, M. M., & Sainju, R. K. (2019). Effect of vagus nerve stimulation on blood glucose concentration in epilepsy patients - Importance of stimulation parameters. Physiological Reports, 7(14). https://doi.org/10.14814/phy2.14169
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