New Delhi :
According to a new study, If you often feel dizzy, faint or light-headed after getting up, these symptoms could indicate greater risk of developing brain disease.
The study conducted suggests that it might indicate greater risk of getting brain diseases such as Parkinson’s or dementia, and even an increased risk of death.
For the study, researchers reviewed the medical records of 165 people with an average age of 59 who completed nervous system testing and were followed for 10 years.
“Our study looked at delayed orthostatic hypotension, when the drop in blood pressure happens more than three minutes after standing or sitting up,” said study author Christopher Gibbons from Harvard Medical School in Boston.
However there is another explanation to this study according to which feeling dizzy after standing due to a sudden drop in blood pressure can be a minor problem due to medication use or dehydration.
Some of the findings of the study were quite revealing. The study found that over 10 years, 54 percent of participants with delayed orthostatic hypotension progressed to orthostatic hypotension and 31 percent developed a degenerative brain disease such as Parkinson’s or dementia with Lewy bodies. The findings were published in the online issue of the journal Neurology.
