Ajay D. Rao, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Section of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, was the first author on a new study published by the journal Diabetes that examined the effects of hypoglycemia on cardiovascular autonomic control – one system that influences the heart’s function. They found that in their experimental model of hypoglycemia, there was a clear change in the body’s responses to cardiovascular stress.