期刊名称：Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine
印刷版ISSN：1232-1966
电子版ISSN：1898-2263
出版年度：2017
卷号：24
期号：3
页码：502-506
DOI：10.5604/12321966.1228401
出版社：Institute of Agricultural Medicine in Lublin
摘要：Introduction. Dizziness is a common complaint among patients seen by primary care physicians, neurologist andotolaryngologist. It presents difficult clinical and diagnostic problems.Objectives. The purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence and incidence of dizziness in the general populationof the town and district Bytów, northern Poland, and to describe its clinical characteristics.Materials and method. Epidemiological questionnaires were completed by 4,799 inhabitants of the town and districtof Bytów. All participants were randomly selected from the patients’ list of the Family Health Centre ‘Salus’ in Bytów. Themain variables studied were gender, age, school education, work situation, clinical characteristics of dizziness symptomsand circumstances provoking dizziness.Results. Prevalence of dizziness was diagnosed among 16.4% of the inhabitants of the town and district of Bytów. Symptomsof dizziness appeared more often among the elderly and among women. Among young people, the condition showsas vertigo or presyncope, among people aged 50 or older, the condition showed as disequilibrium. The most commonprecipitant of dizziness was postural change. Dizziness was more likely to occur among those suffering from high bloodpressure, diabetes, increased blood lipids, hypothyroidism, cardiac arrhythmia and depression. Dizziness was more likelyto occur among women using OCS or HRT, and individuals taking anti-epileptic drugs.Conclusion. The authors present the first Polish neurootologic survey of epidemiology of dizziness in the general population.This condition is common in the general population, and this study indicates its prevalence in 16.4% of the inhabitants ofthe town and district of Bytów. It is recommendable that epidemiological studies should be carried out.
关键词：dizziness; general population; epidemiology; prevalence; neurology
