2013
Volume 13, Number 1, pp. 18–29
Epidemiology of dizziness
Marcello Cherchi
Department of Neurology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, 303 East Chicago Avenue, Ward 10-185,
Chicago, Illinois 60611
The epidemiology of dizziness is challenging due to the variety of descriptors, the variability of clinical presentation, differences in the setting of the clinical evaluation and diagnostic techniques, methods of reporting, and various biases in sampling and referral. We briefly review these challenges and then present an overview of the frequency of the symptom and the broad array of diagnoses that can cause it.
Keywords: vertigo, vestibular