Vertigo (Dizziness): Complications

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