The following are the most important diseases or complications that can be caused by vertigo (dizziness) as well:
Psyche – Nervous System (F00-F99; G00-G99).
- Social isolation – when due to vertigo no longer leave the house.
Symptoms and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings not elsewhere classified (R00-R99)
- Gait unsteadiness/gait disturbance
Injuries, poisonings, and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T98)
- Fractures (broken bones) due to falls.
Further
- Mortality risk ↑ (dizziness is an independent risk parameter): dizziness patients had over 70% increased mortality risk (death rate) compared with dizziness-free patients; 9% of dizziness patients died in the following five years.
Prognostic factors
- Advanced age
- History of arrhythmias (cardiac arrhythmias)
- High level of impairment due to symptoms (high DHI score; “Dizziness Handicap Inventory”).
- Look up as a trigger