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Recurrent vertigo is a predictor of stroke in a large cohort of hypertensive patients
Journal of Hypertension — Courand PY, et al. | April 01, 2019
In a large cohort of hypertensive patients,
researchers focused on the features and the clinical correlates of
dizziness, as well as on its prognostic significance for all-cause,
cardiovascular, and stroke mortality. Participants included 1716
individuals from the OLD-HTA Lyon's cohort of hypertensive patients.
These subjects were divided based on the absence or the presence of
dizziness. Further subdivision of the dizziness group into vertigo and
other dizziness excluding vertigo was done. By multivariate Cox
regression model, the risk for all-cause mortality, cardiovascular
mortality, or stroke mortality was not influenced by the presence of
dizziness. A prognostic effect was shown by only vertigo in an analysis
of the different subgroups of dizziness. Overall, a high-risk profile at
baseline was absent in hypertensive patients with dizziness, but higher
stroke mortality observed in those with vertigo makes it necessary to
carefully follow these subjects over the years.
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