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Is Your Vertigo A
Sign Of Increase Stroke Risk?
Because
vertigo
is so unpleasant and scary, many people rush to the emergency room when it
happens to them. But often it is not due to serious causes like increase stroke risk.
An
article in the journal Mayo
Clinic Proceedings found
that, even though dizziness accounted for 4% of emergency room and 5% of clinic
walk-ins, only 15% of these were due to dangerous conditions, only 5.4% to
stroke, and a further 5.7% to a mini stroke.
So
how do you know whether to take vertigo
seriously as a sign of an urgent health problem?
It
goes without saying that any symptoms that accompany the vertigo, especially
slurred speech, paralysis, and loss of consciousness, should be taken
seriously.
But
other than those, a new study in the Journal
of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases has now contributed to the question by
evaluating whether vertigo
plus sudden hearing loss, vertigo alone, or sudden hearing loss alone
poses the greatest chance of increase stroke risk.
They
obtained the medical records of 218,656 patients from the National Health
Insurance Research Database of Taiwan from 2002 to 2009.
678
had vertigo plus sudden hearing loss, 1,998 had sudden hearing loss alone, and
215,980 had vertigo alone.
They
followed the patients for three years until 2012 or until they had a stroke or
died.
This is what they found about the chances of
increase stroke risk if you have or don’t have vertigo symptoms:
#1
- 5.5% of those with vertigo plus sudden hearing loss ending up having a
stroke.
#2
- 3% of those with sudden hearing loss alone suffered a stroke.
#3
- 3.9% of those who experienced vertigo alone had a stroke.
Once
they had crunched all the numbers, they concluded that people with vertigo plus
sudden hearing loss were 1.93 times more likely than people with only sudden
hearing loss to have a stroke, and 1.63 times more likely than those with only
vertigo to have one.
When
they counted only the cases where the vertigo and sudden hearing loss occurred
within three days of each other, the risks of stroke were much higher, at
around 2.91 times higher than for sudden hearing loss alone and around 2.25
times higher than for vertigo alone.
This
study is useful for two reasons.
Firstly,
it draws our attention to the fact that stroke is not actually one of the
common causes of vertigo.
Secondly,
and possibly more importantly, it alerts us to the fact that we should not
ignore vertigo as a mere ear problem if it is accompanied by sudden hearing
loss, as this combination of symptoms are more likely than vertigo alone to
indicate that a stroke might be in progress.
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