Abstract：【Objective】To explore the common etiologies and their respective proportions in patients visiting the Neurology Department with the chief compliant of vertigo/dizziness. 【Methods】Patients who visited the Vertigo Clinic of the Neurology Department of our hospital with the chief compliant of vertigo/dizziness were collected continuously from January 2014 to June 2015. The etiology of vertigo/dizziness was determined in accordance with the current international recognized diagnostic criteria for the specific disease, and the proportion of various etiologies of vertigo/dizziness was analyzed. 【Results】A total 1615 patients were enrolled, including 630 males and 985 females, with the male/female ratio 1:1.6. The 5 most common etiologies were benign paroxysmal positional vertigo, migrainous vertigo, bilateral vestibular hypofunction, vestibular neuritis, and central vertigo, accounting for 28.3%, 10.5%, 8.0%, 5.8% and 5.6% of all etiologies, respectively. Psychogenic dizziness was diagnosed in only 5.3% of the patients, and the proportion of patients with unknown etiology was as high as 18.7%. 【Conclusion】Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo and Migrainous vertigo are the most common etiologies of vertigo/dizziness; females are more susceptible to vertigo than males; the proportion of psychogenic dizziness is relatively low; the proportion of vertigo/dizziness of unknown etiology is relatively high.
2016, Vol. 33 
