Vertigo: Epidemiologic Aspects

Vertigo: epidemiologic aspects.

Vertigo is a frequent symptom in the general population with a 12-month prevalence of 5% and an incidence of 1.4% in adults. Its prevalence rises with age and is about two to three times higher in women than in men. The epidemiology of vertigo and underlying specific vestibular disorders is still an underdeveloped field despite its usefulness for clinical decision making and its potential for i...

Neurootological aspects of juvenile vertigo.

Pathologies from childhood to adolescence carry physical, cognitive, motor, linguistic, perceptual, social, emotional, and neurosensory characteristics. The ages between 8 and 14 or 15 especially carry very special traits of a rollover in data processing with respect to balance regulation. Data acquisition of neurootological function provides us with a network of information about the sensory s...

Epidemiologic and genetic aspects

Epidemiologic and Etiologic Aspects

In the NIH Collaborative Perinatal Project, a prospective study of over 53,000 pregnant women and their offspring, 71 single-born children (13.33/10,000) were found to have a non-syndromal neural tube defect (NTD). A family history was present in only one case. The group of individuals with NTD was compared to a group of 400 randomly selected non-malformed control infants. Of over 50 maternal f...

Epidemiologic aspects of leptospirosis.

ADDRESS: Atlanta, Georgia. to a possible source of infection may provide a clue to the recognition of these discases when they occur in children. Rocky Mountain spotted fever, munine typhus and rickettsialpox arc transmitted to children by invertebrate vectors. However, the child frequently may be unaware that he has been the accidental host of vectors of the last two diseases. Since Q fever is...