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A potentially transformative treatment for POTS/Long COVID.

Dr. Sanjay Gupta

What is POTS? POTS stands for postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome. I have over a thousand patients with POTS and I have spent a lot of time listening to their stories. How do patients develop POTS? Are POTS AND LongCOVID the same condition? This is incorrect. Why do I say this?

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Does Stress Cause Heart Disease?

Dr. Paddy Barrett

If you take someone who has multiple risk factors for heart disease, including diabetes, smoking, abnormal cholesterol and high blood pressure, they have a 42 times higher risk of a heart attack compared to someone who does not have any of these factors. No real surprise there. This is more commonly known as ‘Broken Heart Syndrome.