A comorbidity is a coexisting health condition, or having 2 or more simultaneous medical diagnoses🩺 Specifically, it is often used to describe multiple diagnoses that are commonly seen together.
Examples:
For example, you can have heart disease and multiple other comorbidities including high blood pressure, high cholesterol and diabetes🩸Or you can have allergies with a comorbidity of asthma 🩻 Anxiety and depression are also common comorbidities💊
POTS & Comorbidites:
Since POTS is a syndrome, or a group of symptoms and not an specific disease, many patients have multiple other underlying problems and illnesses that contribute to their POTS! We call these comorbidites:) I will explain more about this in my POTS Courses! And as I start introducing my other diagnoses I will refer to them as comorbidities, and now you know what that means! 😊
My Comorbidites:
Each week I will post about a new comoribidity and then I will share it on this list:) I will start with my first one tomorrow!
1) EDS (Ehler-Danlos Syndrome)2) MCAS (Mast Cell Activation Syndrome)3) Dysautonomia
4) Orthostatic Intolerance
POTS Subtypes:
a. Hyperadrenergic POTS
b. Hypovolemic POTS
c. Neuropathic POTS
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