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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2024 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: BJOG. 2023 Mar 12;130(9):1120–1127. doi: 10.1111/1471-0528.17437

Table 2.

Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS) Symptoms during and after pregnancy, and with subsequent pregnancies, compared to POTS symptoms pre-pregnancy.

Time Frame Improved POTS Symptoms (%) Same POTS Symptoms (%) Worse POTS Symptoms (%)
First Trimester (T1)
(total n=1,606)
20.0 17.3 62.6
Second Trimester (T2)
(total n = 1,511)
34.8 17.0 48.2
Third Trimester (T3)
(total n = 1,518)
26.4 14.7 58.9
Post-Pregnancy
(total n = 1,636)
24.8 16.5 58.7
Subsequent Pregnancies
(total n = 1,065)
12.0 35.4 52.6