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In this chapter, we look beyond the first test and provide sample longitudinal studies. Here we attempt to answer the questions: “Why test?” “How to intervene?” “What are the expected outcomes?” As examples we offer a diabetic and a hypertensive patient as examples.
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Colombo, J., Arora, R., DePace, N.L., Vinik, A.I. (2015). Example of Longitudinal Studies. In: Clinical Autonomic Dysfunction. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07371-2_31
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