Association of Symptomatic Dizziness With All-Cause and Cause-Specific Mortality.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Dizziness is a highly prevalent complaint with wide-ranging causes and resultant morbidity. Whether symptomatic dizziness and its various manifestations are associated with all-cause and cause-specific mortality is unknown.

Objective

To examine the associations of symptomatic dizziness and its manifestations with all-cause and cause-specific mortality.

Design, setting, and participants

This cohort study is a mortality follow-up study based on the 1999-2004 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. The study cohort included adults 40 years and older who completed questions about symptomatic dizziness, including problems with dizziness, balance, falling, and positional dizziness, within the past 12 months. Respondents were linked to mortality data thr

SUBMITTER: Lin ME 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10853869 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature