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ArticleFrontiers in physiology2024

Gastrointestinal symptoms in patients with postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome in relation to hemodynamic findings and immunological factors.

Hanna Tufvesson, Viktor Hamrefors, Artur Fedorowski, Monika Hansson, Bodil Ohlsson

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Article in Frontiers in physiology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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6citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 4 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Hanna TufvessonDepartment of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden.
Viktor HamreforsDepartment of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden.
Artur FedorowskiDepartment of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden.
Monika HanssonDepartment of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Karolinska Institute, and Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden.
Bodil OhlssonDepartment of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden.
Karolinska University Hospital · SESkåne University Hospital · SELund University · SE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Gastrointestinal (GI) symptoms are common in postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS). We aimed to explore the prevalence and severity of GI symptoms in POTS, and to investigate immunological factors, hemodynamic findings, and their possible association with GI symptoms in POTS. Forty-three patients (93% female, median age 30.6 (26.0-41.0) years), previously diagnosed with POTS and 74 healthy controls (78% female, median age 35.6 (28.8-41.7) years) were included. The participants completed a questionnaire including prevalence of GI symptoms, the irritable bowel syndrome severity scoring system (IBS-SSS), and visual analog scale for IBS (VAS-IBS). All POTS patients were previously examined by tilt test (2010-2021) and the vast majority with more recent active standing test (2017-2021), which included monitoring of heart rate (HR). ΔHR was calculated as difference between supine and upright position. Continuous variables from IBS-SSS and VAS-IBS were correlated to ΔHR. A microarray containing several autoantigens commonly targeted in systemic autoimmune disorders was used to assess prevalent autoantibodies in POTS and controls. Total IgE and S-tryptase were analyzed. GI symptoms were more prevalent and severe in POTS than in controls; nausea being the most prevalent (79.1% vs 4.9%,

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autoimmunityehlers-danlos syndromegastrointestinal tractirritable bowel syndromemast cellspostural orthostatic tachycardia (POTS)tilt table test

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PMID38348221
PMCPMC10859499
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