Testing salt to treat POTS symptoms
Part of Brain & nervous system clinical trials.
This study looks at whether adding salt helps improve POTS symptoms, especially the fast heart rate that happens when you stand. You’d be screened carefully to make sure your symptoms fit POTS and that other causes of fast heart rate are unlikely.
Summary written for real people, not researchers, by Clin2.
Who can take part
- You have a physician diagnosis of POTS (a specific pattern of fast heart rate on standing)
- Your symptoms last long-term and improve when you lie down
- When you stand, your heart rate goes up by at least 30 beats per minute within 10 minutes, and your blood pressure does not drop quickly
- You are 18–60 years old
- You can travel to the Calgary Autonomic Research Clinic in Calgary and live in Canada
- You can follow the study plan and complete it (past poor compliance may exclude you)
Quick eligibility check
Answer a few plain-language questions, based on this study's own requirements, to get a preliminary sense of fit.
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