What is POTS? Association with chronic covid disease..!?

POTS is a disorder of the autonomic nervous system called postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome. This is a disease characterized by a rapid increase in heart rate, usually after waking up from sitting or lying down. Dizziness or lightheadedness, fainting or near fainting, palpitations, chest pain, shortness of breath and tremors, and sweating. Symptoms of this disease include digestive problems, extreme tiredness, brain fog, extreme tiredness, purple hands and feet, blurred or tunnel vision, and headaches.
Increase in heart rate:

Simply explained, when we stand up the heart rate increases and most of the blood is in the lower body.
Americans are more vulnerable:

These pots affect approximately one in ten to three million Americans, according to the Johns Hopkins Medicine Institute on its website. Although researchers do not yet fully understand the causes of this disease, it is said to be more common in women than in men. But this disease is not life-threatening. Although many people recover quickly from Covid-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, others who do recover will experience symptoms for months. Researchers are still determining the cause of these extended symptoms, but some people with Covid-19 develop Potts disease, the Johns Hopkins Medicine Institute clarified. In his research, Tae Chung, director of the Johns Hopkins POTS Program, which addresses prolonged covid, said in an article on the website that Potts disease can be caused by a bacterial or viral infection and that patients with prolonged covid have developed similar symptoms.

An article published by the American heart Association this week highlights that possible causes and treatments for prolonged Covid-related POTS are still being researched.

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POTS disease

Sowmiya Sriram

28/02/2023 10:55 PM