Introduction: As life expectancy increased, complaints of dizziness became more common, leading to a decline in the quality of life of the elderly population. Objective: To verify the presence of a complaint of dizziness and the impact caused by it in the quality of life of the elderly in the municipality of Nova Friburgo / RJ. Methodology: Cross-sectional study. Elderly people aged 60 years or...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Some patients experiencing dizziness also report psychological distress. However, the association between vestibular deficits and psychological symptoms remains controversial. Thus, the aim of this paper is to report the proportion of patients who complained of dizziness who also had high depression and anxiety indices. Also we investigated the severity of their dizzin...

Dizziness is an extremely common yet complex neurologic symptom that reflects a disturbance of normal balance perception and spatial orientation. An estimated 7.5 million patients with dizziness are seen each year in ambulatory care settings. Dizziness is also one of the most common principal complaints in the emergency department (ED) and is responsible for 2.5% of all ED visits. Among patient...

PURPOSE OF REVIEW In 1986, the German neurologists Thomas Brandt and Marianne Dieterich described a syndrome of phobic postural vertigo (PPV) based on clinical observations of patients with nonvertiginous dizziness that could not be explained by then-known neuro-otologic disorders. Subsequent research by an American team led by Jeffrey Staab and Michael Ruckenstein confirmed the core physical s...

CONCLUSION Chronic subjective dizziness (CSD) is frequent and affects twice as many women as men. Anxiety is a strong predisposing factor. The pathophysiologic concept of this disorder assumes that balance function and emotion share common neurologic pathways, which might explain that the balance disorder can provoke fear and vice versa, giving rise to a problem in perception of space and motio...

OBJECTIVE: This is a cross-sectional epidemiological survey designed to estimate the prevalence of dizziness among the adult population of the city of São Paulo, Brazil, and to describe the clinical features and level of discomfort. METHOD: This population based study was conducted in the city of São Paulo, Brazil, between April and October 2012. A total of 1,960 household interviews were compl...

OBJECTIVE Dizziness is a common reason patients present to doctors, but effective diagnostic tests and treatments for dizziness are underused. The internet is a way to disseminate medical information and is emerging as an intervention platform. The objective of this study was to describe internet searches for dizziness terms to assess the possible consumer demand for internet-based dizziness di...

background: dizziness as a common symptom affecting many aspects of the patient’s life and it is hard to be fully evaluated. the dizziness handicap inventory (dhi) is a reliable self-perceived questionnaire in the evaluation of dizziness impacts. the purposes of this study are translation of the dhi to persian language and measuring its psychometric properties, including face, content, discrimi...