If a patient with a spinal cord injury loses the ability to shiver below the injury site during cold exposure, which consequence follows regarding body temperature regulation?

💡 Explanation

Shivering is a primary mechanism for thermogenesis. Because spinal cord injury disrupts the neural pathway controlling shivering below the injury, heat production is impaired, therefore the risk of hypothermia increases, rather than a different thermoregulatory response.

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