Epidemiological Study of Predisposing Factors in Meniere's Disease by the Community Psychological Technique (2nd report)

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The relationships between stress and vertigo attacks were studied from the results of a questionnaire (Environmental Change Event Inventory reported by Kobayashi in 1977). In order to make a casecontrol study, 135 normal participants in a multiphasic health examination in Toyama Prefecture (1987) and 42 patients with Meniere's disease who visited our hospital in 1987 were sent questionnaires.<BR>This study revealed the following features:<BR>(1) Patients with Meniere's disease were more stressed than the controls. The subjective weight of a stressful impact in each change event had tended to be greater in the patients.<BR>(2) In one case the frequency of vertigo attacks decreased as the quantity of stress decreased.<BR>These data suggest that stress is closely related to vertigo attacks in patients with Meniere's disease.
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