«Our study looked at
delayed orthostatic hypotension, when the drop in blood pressure happens more than three minutes after standing or sitting up,» said study author Christopher Gibbons, MD, with Harvard Medical School in Boston and a Fellow with the American Academy of Neurology.
The rate of death over 10 years was 29 percent for people with
delayed orthostatic hypotension, 64 percent for those with orthostatic hypotension (the more serious form of the disease) and 9 percent in people without either condition.
People with
delayed orthostatic hypotension who also had diabetes at the beginning of the study were more likely to develop the full condition than those without diabetes.
Not exact matches
The death rate over 10 years for those with the
delayed condition who progressed to
orthostatic hypotension was 50 percent.