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Therefore, we aim to determine if the decrease of the baroreceptor sensitivity is enough to diagnose different degrees of the autonomic dysfunction spectrum.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>A cross-sectional study was conducted in a cohort of individuals who presented with various long-term symptoms for at least four weeks after a moderate acute COVID-19 infection. To further evaluate orthostatic intolerance (OI), we developed a new method that enables a more detailed characterization of cardiovascular dynamics using beat-to-beat physiological time series. Since these dynamics can be assessed through the measurement of baroreceptor sensitivity, this new method employs a geometric analysis that reveals varying degrees of baroreceptor sensitivity impairment. The proposed method generated a graph of baroreflex sensitivity that consistently showed a decrease in this index.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Patients exhibited significantly lower BRS compared with healthy controls during orthostatism. Furthermore, we noticed that patients with lower BRS had a significantly higher arterial blood pressure and heart rate, as well as an overall lower heart rate variability. The proposed method also correlated with previously recognized canonical variables of HRV, as well as being validated with the sequence method. Additionally, this allows us to understand and reclassify patients\u2019 diagnoses within the spectrum of symptoms similar to postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS).<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>The proposed method allowed us to consider this decrease in baroreflex sensitivity measurement as a diagnostic tool through a spectrum-based approach to reclassify patients. 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