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.
The researchers identified 402 patients with
orthostatic hypotension who had a normal heart rhythm.
Not exact matches
The death rate over 10 years for those with the delayed condition
who progressed to
orthostatic hypotension was 50 percent.
«We found that those people
who suffered from
orthostatic hypotension in middle age were 40 percent more likely to develop dementia than those
who did not.
People with
orthostatic hypotension at the first visit were 40 percent more likely to develop dementia than those
who did not have it.
This helps those
who have chronic
hypotension, chronic
orthostatic intolerance, neurocardiogenic syncope, and POTS.
Chronic
orthostatic hypotension can be a severely debilitating disease in the elderly, people with diabetes, chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), Parkinson's disease, scrofulous growths and in people
who take medications that affect the autonomic nervous system.