In the assessment of primary outcomes-free survival, patients with cardiogenic syncope and syncope from unknown origin had significantly higher rates of adverse outcomes compared with vasovagal syncope and
postural hypotension. Patients with
postural hypotension and unknown cause were excluded from the analysis of predictors due to a reduced number of cases.
Watkins, "Disabling
postural hypotension complicating diabetic autonomic neuropathy," Diabetic Medicine, vol.
Many people experience mild
postural hypotension lasting a second or two when they stand up quickly and the body adjusts to the position change, but it's usually no reason for alarm.
Postural hypotension occurs in 10% of patients treated with bortezomib and is associated with dehydration, concomitant anti-hypertensive treatment, and/or autonomic neuropathy 141.
There is a high degree of syncope among the patients (40) with dialysis treatment-related
postural hypotension. Also, the anti-hypertensive medications contribute to this increased falls risk (41).
Are elderly hemodialysis patients at risk of falls and
postural hypotension? International Urological Nephrology, 365, 415-421.
However,
postural hypotension was noted in 3 patients in group 2 but was not so severe as to require dropping these patients from the study.
Within minutes, the Governor was taken to the nearby Lokmanya Hospital at Nigdi, where Dr Shrikrishna Joshi said he suffered from
postural hypotension.
They used pharmacologic treatment as a measure of other symptoms, including constipation,
postural hypotension, depression, and hallucinations.
Many antihypertensive medications produce significant morbidity--even mortality--because of side effects, including
postural hypotension, bradycardia, and other arrhythmias, and metabolic disturbances--all of which are more common in the elderly.
In our study urinary symptoms were found in 20.7% of patients, gastrointestinal symptoms-17.2%, blurring of vision-13.8%, palpitations-in 6.9%, chest pain and loss of sensation-5.2%,
postural hypotension, intermittent claudication and paresthesia-1.7%.