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Are portable folding chairs useful to combat orthostatic hypotension?
Author(s) -
Smit Adrianus A. J.,
Hardjowijono Mireille A.,
Wieling Wouter
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
annals of neurology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.764
H-Index - 296
eISSN - 1531-8249
pISSN - 0364-5134
DOI - 10.1002/ana.410420620
Subject(s) - orthostatic vital signs , sitting , medicine , blood pressure , physical medicine and rehabilitation , cardiology , physical therapy , pathology
The effect of sitting on a derby chair (height, 48 cm), fishing chair (38 cm), and footstool (20 cm) on the improvement of postural hypotension was studied serially in 8 patients with autonomic failure. The increment in blood pressure during sitting was higher by using a lower portable chair. This was related to an increasing cardiac output at lower sitting heights. The fishing chair was, according to our patients' experience, most useful.