Vertigo and dizziness in adolescents: Risk factors and their population attributable risk.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To assess potential risk factors for vertigo and dizziness in adolescents and to evaluate their variability by different vertigo types. The role of possible risk factors for vertigo and dizziness in adolescents and their population relevance needs to be addressed in order to design preventive strategies.

Study design

The study population consisted of 1482 school-children between the age of 12 and 19 years, who were instructed to fill out a questionnaire on different vertigo types and related potential risk factors. The questionnaire specifically asked for any vertigo, spinning vertigo, swaying vertigo, orthostatic dizziness, and unspecified dizziness. Further a wide range of potential risk factors were addressed including gender, stress, muscular pain in the neck

SUBMITTER: Filippopulos FM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5683632 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature