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We aimed to determine if a gluten-free diet (GFD) may be an effective treatment in patients with POTS.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Patients with confirmed POTS and without celiac disease who followed GFD for\u2009\u20094 weeks retrospectively completed pre- and post- GFD COMPASS-31 questionnaires. Paired-samples t-tests were conducted to compare COMPASS-31 scores before and after adopting GFD.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>All 20 patients (all females, age 16\u201362 years (mean age 33)), had POTS symptoms for 1\u201330 years (mean 10.8, SD\u2009\u2009=\u2009\u200910.23 years). Eleven patients had co-morbid mast cell activation syndrome, and 8 had hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. Pre-GFD COMPASS-31 scores (mean 57.8) were significantly higher than post-GFD scores (mean 38.2, t(19)\u2009=\u2009-8.92, p\u2009&lt;\u20090.00001), with the largest improvement noted in the OI (p\u2009&lt;\u20090.00001), vasomotor, (p\u2009\u2009=\u2009\u20090.0034), and GI (p\u2009\u2009=\u2009\u20090.0004) domains and with a mean reduction in total COMPASS-31 score by 33.9% after implementing GFD. All patients reported improved symptoms on GFD with mean self-assessed improvement of 50.5% (range 10-99%).<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Discussion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>GFD may be effective in reducing the symptom burden in patients with POTS, particularly in the OI, vasomotor, and GI symptom domains. 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