Climatic variations and benign paroxysmal positional vertigo

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摘要 Benignparoxysmalpositionalvertigo(BPPV)isprobablythemostcommondiagnosisatvertigoclinics.Seasonalcyclesofseveralhumanillnessescouldbeattributedvariouslytochangesinatmosphericorweatherconditions.Inthisretrospectivestudy,patientswithBPPVfromJanuary2010toDecember2012werestudied,andtheirchartswerereviewed.Statisticalanalysisrevealedastatisticallysignificantdifferenceinpatients’numbersamongdifferentmonthsoftheyear.Alsothereisasignificantstatisticalcorrelationbetweenthenumbersofpatientswithclimaticvariationsespeciallythetemperature.ThepresentpaperdiscussesthepossibleexplanationsfortheseresultswhichconfirmstheseasonalvariationsinBPPV,togetherwithareviewofliteraturetoviewthepossibleassociationswithotherdisordersthatcausessuchseasonality.
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出版日期 2016年01月11日(中国期刊网平台首次上网日期,不代表论文的发表时间)
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