Lack of orthostatic symptoms in dementia patients with orthostatic hypotension.
Purpose: Orthostatic hypotension (OH) is common and increases with age. OH is part of the autonomic dysfunction in dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB). Commonly OH is diagnosed when the patient falls which is a risk factor of premature death. Our objective was to systematically investigate the clinical symptoms associated with measurement of OH in different neurodegenerative dementias and normal contr