Akina Fukushima, Kayoko Kabaya, Toshiya Minakata, Sachiyo Katsumi, Shinichi Esaki, Shinichi Iwasaki
OBJECTIVE: To investigate differences in the clinical characteristics of patients with persistent postural-perceptual dizziness (PPPD) according to age. METHODS: We retrospectively reviewed 143 patients diagnosed with PPPD. Patients were classified into three groups by age: young group (19 to 44 years, n = 60), middle-age group (45 to 64 years, n = 56), old group (65 to 85 years, n = 27). Demographic data, scores of the Dizziness Handicap Inventory (DHI), the Niigata PPPD Questionnaire (NPQ), the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS), precipitating conditions, and the results of vestibular function tests including caloric testing, video head impulse test (vHIT), cervical and ocular vestibular evoked myogenic potentials (cVEMPs and oVEMPs), and posturography, were compared among the three groups...
2024: Frontiers in Neurology