Risk of benign paroxysmal positional vertigo in patients with depressive disorders: a nationwide population-based cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The association between depression and benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV) remains debated. This study aimed to investigate the risk of BPPV in patients with depressive disorders.

Design

Longitudinal nationwide cohort study.

Setting

National health insurance research database in Taiwan.

Participants

We enrolled 10 297 patients diagnosed with depressive disorders between 2000 and 2009 and compared them to 41 188 selected control patients who had never been diagnosed with depressive disorders (at a 1:4 ratio matched by age, sex and index date) in relation to the risk of developing BPPV.

Methods

The follow-up period was defined as the time from the initial diagnosis of depressive disorders to the date of BPPV, censoring or 31 December 2009

SUBMITTER: Hsu CL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6475146 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature