The good news is that when patients with chronic dizziness have been followed for a year, they do not have a higher mortality, heart attack rate, higher stroke or even higher hospitalization rate. The Yale group has reported some mixed news about dizziness. What we do not know is whether anything can be done to reduce these triggering events such as getting up more gradually - this is preventive if the cause is postural hypotension, but postural hypotension is not the usual cause. Some of the common activities reported by people who chronically experience dizziness are listed in table 2. Most people (74 percent) say their dizziness is provoked by several activities that tend to be related to motion. Also, changes is position are commonly reported as precipitating events. If you read your medication labels you will often find dizziness listed as a side effect and some of the medications cause orthostatic hypotension (a condition in which standing causes the blood pressure to decrease) which easily explains dizziness by the mechanism of reduced blood supply to the brain.Ī number of activities can also precipitate dizziness such as strenuous exercise with resultant dehydration - something that we at Seabrook can do in the summer if we are not careful about drinking plenty of fluids. A certain number of episodes are related to medications and combinations of medications. Other medical problems like diabetes can cause dizziness, especially when blood glucose is low. There are other neurologic diseases such as Parkinson's, alcoholism and psychiatric conditions such as depression and anxiety can be associated with dizziness. There are a host of medical diseases which can produce dizziness - these include neurological entities related to brain blood flow like carotid artery or other cerebrovascular diseases and even heart problems such as aortic valve stenosis or congestive heart failure. A team of geriatric physicians at Yale University have actively investigated dizziness and even have proposed that it is "Geriatric Syndrome" that can be caused by many different things.
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