Positional vertigo in a falls service

Age and Ageing

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 585-589

  Lawson, Joanna ^a   Bamiou, Doris Eva ^b   Cohen, Helen S ^c   Newton, Julia ^a  

^a ROYAL VICTORIA INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (United Kingdom)

^c BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; BENIGN PAROXYSMAL POSITIONAL VERTIGO; BRADYCARDIA; CENTRAL POSITIONAL VERTIGO; COMORBIDITY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE COURSE; DIX HALLPIKE TEST; DIZZINESS; FALLING; FEMALE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NYSTAGMUS; ORTHOSTATIC HYPOTENSION; POSITIONAL VERTIGO; PRESYNCOPE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SYNCOPE; UNSTEADINESS; VERTIGO;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; DIZZINESS; FEMALE; GAIT; HOSPITAL UNITS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCULOSKELETAL EQUILIBRIUM; NYSTAGMUS, PHYSIOLOGIC; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; VERTIGO;

EID: 51749111373     PISSN: 00020729     EISSN: 14682834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/afn151     Document Type: Letter

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