Medicare Now Covers COVID-19 Tests Bought at Drug Stores
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Learn MoreMigraines May Affect Outcomes in Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy
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Learn MoreStudy Explores Characteristics of Vestibular Migraine
TUESDAY, April 5, 2022 (HealthDay News) — For patients with vestibular migraine (VM), the mean age of headache and vertigo onset is 25 and 39 years, respectively, according to a study published in the April issue of Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery.
Neşe Çelebisoy, M.D., Ph.D., from Ege University in Izmir, Turkey, and colleagues examined demographic and clinical features of VM in 415 patients using structured questionnaires and clinical examination.
The researchers found that the mean age was 25 and 39 years for headache and vertigo onset, respectively. Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo was detected during the interictal period in 12.3 percent of participants. On audiometry, 10 percent had hearing loss; in 8.7 percent, it was one-sided low-frequency sensory-neural hearing loss
“The clinical presentation in VM shows great variability,” the authors write. “The mean age at headache onset was 28 ± 9 years and the period between onset of migraine headaches and vertigo attacks was around 10 years.”
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Learn MoreCOVID-19 Vaccination Early in Pregnancy Not Linked to Fetal Anomalies
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