What diseases and disorders can affect the vagus nerve?
There are a number of disease states and disorders associated with the vagus nerve (Martins et al., 2021; Bonaz, Sinniger and Pellissier, 2017, Farrand et al., 2017).
Examples include:
- abdominal surgery
- inflammatory viral infections (e.g. covid-19)
- fibromyalgia
- cardiovascular disease
- rheumatoid arthritis
- inflammatory bowel diseases
- SLE
- depression
- obesity and diabetes
- epilepsy
- Crohn’s disease
- chronic stress
- Parkinson’s disease
- gastroparesis
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