Objective Sleep Disturbances in Orthostatic Intolerance

Satish R. Raj

Status: Completed

Conditions: Postural Tachycardia Syndrome; Chronic Orthostatic Intolerance

Treatments: Procedure: Polysomnography

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT00581022

UL1RR024975 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

051131

Details and patient eligibility

About

We wish to study sleep architecture in patients with chronic orthostatic intolerance. We will test the null hypothesis that there is no difference in time during the various phases of sleep between patients and healthy control subjects.

Enrollment: 100 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• diagnosed with chronic orthostatic intolerance (or healthy subject)

Exclusion criteria

• overt cause or acute orthostatic intolerance
• pregnancy or lactation

Trial design

100 participants in 1 patient group

1

Description:

Patients with Chronic Orthostatic Intolerance

Treatment:

Procedure: Polysomnography