Standing up quickly can leave a person slightly light-headed. Physicians have long known that the feeling and the lack of blood pressure response that causes it occur more often in people with Parkinson’s disease than in healthy individuals. A report in the Sept. 5 Annals of Internal Medicine indicates that damage to nerve endings in the heart may be at fault.
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