An etiological analysis of the dizziness in 348 outpatients in the medical service for the four South Pacific Countries
LXiaojing
LIU Jianguo
QI Xiaokun
QIU Feng
LI Yongqun
YANG Xiaobin
LIN Yongsheng
HUANG Yixiong
Abstract：Objective To analyze the causes of the dizziness of the outpatients in "Peace Ark"hospital ship offering medical service for the four South Pacific Countries ,so as to help to im-prove the diagnosis efficiency and reduce the misdiagnosis rate in these countries .Methods Three hundred and forty-eight cases of dizziness in the four countries were collected and the etiological analysis was stratified by sex .Results ①The four top diagnosis for these 348 patients were hyper-tension (131 cases, accounted for 37.6%), neurosis (61 cases, for 17.5%), benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV 55 cases, for 15.8%), and migraine-associated vertigo (35 cases,for 10.1%) .②Stratified by sex , the constituent ratios of some causes of dizziness had significant statis-tic difference .the migraine-associated vertigo and neurosis were more common in female than in male, in contrast, hypertension was more common in male than in female (P<0.05).Conclusion①Hypertension, Neurosis, BPPV, and migraine may be the most important causes of the dizziness in the outpatients of the four countries .②The constituent ratios of hypertension , migraine-associated vertigo, and neurosis may show significant sex differences , and the former one is more commonly seen in male than in female , but the two latter ones are more common in female than in male .③ Given the different food and aesthetical culture , the constituent of the causes of dizziness in the out-patients of the above four South Pacific Countries may be different from China , and the first screen of hypertension for the patients with dizziness may be most important .
Keywords：DizzinessVertigoHypertensionBenign paroxysmal positional vertigoHar-mony Mission-2014
Publication Date：2015-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：4( 23-26 )