Risk factors for vertigo: from health checkups in Yakumo town

• Nakashima Tsutomu

  Ichinomiya Medical Treatment & Habilitation Center Department of Otorhinolaryngology, National Center for Geriatrics and Gerontology

• Nakada Takafumi

  Department of Otorhinolaryngology, National Center for Geriatrics and Gerontology Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Nishichita General Hospital

• Katayama Naomi

  Department of Food Science, Nagoya Women's University Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine

• Sugiura Saiko

  Department of Otorhinolaryngology, National Center for Geriatrics and Gerontology Toyota Josui Mental Clinic

• Uchida Yasue

  Department of Otorhinolaryngology, National Center for Geriatrics and Gerontology Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Aichi Medical University

• Teranish Masaaki

  Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine

• Yoshida Tadao

  Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine

Bibliographic Information

Other Title

• めまいを起こす危険因子の検討 : 八雲町住民健診から

Abstract

　We investigated the risk factors for vertigo from the results of health checkups conducted in Yakumo town. 　The subjects of this investigation included 525 persons (299 women and 226 men), aged 40 to 88 years (average 63.78 years). Among these, 397 persons (75.6%) had no vertigo, 116 persons (22.1%) had vertigo sometimes, and 12 persons (2.3%) suffered from vertigo frequently. Ninety-four women (31.4%) and 34 men (15.0%) had vertigo. Twenty-one (51.2%) of the 41 women in their 40s had vertigo. Logistic regression analysis revealed that subjective hearing loss, a low value of the mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration (MCHC), headache, high level of serum creatinine and frequent urination were significantly associated with the risk of vertigo, after adjustments for age and sex. Listening difficulties in conversations between four or five people were reported more frequently than those in one-to-one conversations. Anemia should be considered in the differential diagnosis of vertigo. In the diagnosis of vertigo, information about the presence/absence of headache and the status of the headache, if any, may be necessary. In our study, migraine and headache on the ipsilateral side were associated with vertigo, but bilateral headache was not associated with vertigo. Our analysis, did not reveal smoking, drinking, exercise habit, sleep time, body mass index (BMI), body fat percentage, hemoglobin A1c, blood glucose, serum triglyceride, serum LDL cholesterol, or serum HDL cholesterol as being significantly associated with the risk of occurrence of vertigo, after adjustments for age and sex.

Journal

• Equilibrium Research

  Equilibrium Research 79 (3), 156-163, 2020-06-30

  Japan Society for Equilibrium Research

Keywords

• anemia
• headache
• human dock
• prevalence of vertigo

Details

• CRID: 1390566775157476480
• NII Article ID: 130007884722
• DOI: 10.3757/jser.79.156
• ISSN: 1882577X
• ISSN: 03855716
• Web Site: https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jser/79/3/79_156/_pdf
• Web Site: https://search.jamas.or.jp/link/ui/2021000710
• Text Lang: ja
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