Reliance Foundation Hospital, Mumbai said when you have an active disease, the most common fraction of the heart is what we call the nonspecific sinus tachycardia, which happens with COVID-19. "It's a very common complication.
And we usually will find that patient's heart rate gets elevated. I'm talking about adults only not pediatrics, and it gets elevated above 100 that many times and it sort of settles down as the weakness as the illness progresses," added Dr.
Pandit. Physiological stress, autonomic dysfunction, neurohormonal dysregulation, intrinsic sinus node hyperactivity, and postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS).
Dr. Gajinder Kumar Goyal, Director of Cardiology, Marengo QRG Hospital, Faridabad said POTS is a clinical syndrome that is defined as an increase in heart rate of ≥30 bpm when standing for >30 sec.