Sociodemographic Factors, Nutritional Status, and Inflammatory Markers in Patients with Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome

Table 3

The number of participants who ingested the food or beverage at any time for 4 days.

	Healthy controls	POTS	value
Regular meals	16 (80.0%)	15 (62.5%)	0.321
Fast food	6 (30.0%)	8 (33.3%)	1.000
Soda
Sugar-rich	2 (10.0%)	9 (37.5%)	0.044
Sugar-free	3 (15.0%)	3 (12.6%)	1.000
Juice	5 (25.0%)	8 (33.3%)	0.742
Protein drinks	1 (5.0%)	3 (12.6%)	0.614
Energy drinks	0	4 (16.6%)	0.114
All drinks together	7 (35.0%)	17 (70.8%)	0.032

POTS: postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome. Values are given as number and percentage of participants in each group. One participant could ingest several different drinks. Fisher’s exact test. was considered statistically significant.