Archive · 4 Oct 2025
POTS Heart Rhythm Disorder Linked to Long Covid, Study Finds
Imagine that long Covid causes your heart to beat too quickly when you stand up, like a car engine revving too fast.
This study showed that many people with long Covid have a condition called POTS, making their heart race when they stand.
This can make them tired, dizzy, and unable to concentrate.
Researchers studied 467 people with long Covid and found about one-third had POTS.
Doctors can use simple tests to check for POTS, and treatments are available to help manage it and improve the quality of life.
Study links long Covid to the heart rhythm disorder, POTS.
POTS causes a fast heart rate upon standing.
Study involved 467 patients with severe long Covid.
31% of participants received a POTS diagnosis.
Simple tests can detect POTS and treatments exist to help manage it.
- Who
- Researchers at Karolinska Institutet
- What
- Found POTS is common in long Covid patients
- When
- Published in Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology
- Where
- Sweden
- Why
- To determine the prevalence of POTS in long Covid patients
- Disorder
- Postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS)
- Main Symptom
- Abnormally fast heart rate upon standing
- Study Location
- Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
- Participants
- 467 long Covid patients
- POTS Diagnosis Rate
- 31% of participants
- Gender Affected
- Middle-aged women
- Publication
- Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology
