Is impaired orthostatic blood pressure recovery associated with future falls, unexplained falls, and injurious falls?
Impaired orthostatic blood pressure recovery, specifically delayed or sustained orthostatic hypotension, is an independent risk factor for future, unexplained, and injurious falls.
With the exception of initial orthostatic hypotension, beat-to-beat measures of impaired orthostatic BP recovery (delayed recovery OH (40) or sustained orthostatic hypotension OH) are independent risk factors for future falls, unexplained falls, and injurious falls.
Finucane et al. (2017) studied this question.