Stress as a Trigger of Attacks in Menière's Disease. A Case‐Crossover Study

Söderman, Anne-Charlotte Hessén; Möller, Jette; Bagger‐Sjöbäck, Dan; Bergenius, Johan; Hallqvist, Johan

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“…Although we cannot rule out the possibility that Ménière's disease is a hydrops complex of 11.7% 88.3% -n = Number of audiogram pairs; recovery = shift to a milder category; worsening = shift to a more severe category. [23][24][25][26][27] . We suspect that keys to understanding the disease may be hidden in the variability of prognosis, age distribution of patients, differing prevalence between the sexes, lack of environmental factors, and failure to fi nd topical causes in the inner ear.…”

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Personal Factors Involved in Onset or Progression of Ménière’s Disease and Low-Tone Sensorineural Hearing Loss

Takahashi¹,

Odagiri²,

Sato³

et al. 2005

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Purpose: To identify personal causative factors for Ménière’s disease. Procedures: Patterns of hearing loss progression were studied in patients with Ménière’s disease and low-tone sensorineural hearing loss, and the involvement of stress and the relation of stressors to the onset or progression of the disease were analyzed. Results: Low-tone loss recurred in 40% of patients even after hearing was restored, and low-tone loss progressed to high-tone loss after frequent repetitions of recovery and recurrence. High-tone loss tended to proceed to all-tone loss. Eighty percent of patients reported that stress was involved or deeply involved in the onset or progression of the disease. Common causative stressors were business-related pressure, insufficient sleep, and troubles at the workplace or at home. Conclusions: The present findings indicate that recovery and recurrence may be influenced by the strength and duration of stress that is produced when patients do not feel rewarded for engrossment in their work or for self-inhibiting behaviors.

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“…Although it has been suggested that Ménière's disease is a typical stress-induced or psychosomatic disease, there have been only a few studies investigating causative factors arising out of the daily lives of patients [23][24][25][26][27] . To identify factors of daily life inducing Ménière's disease, we have conducted several studies.…”

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Personal Factors Involved in Onset or Progression of Ménière’s Disease and Low-Tone Sensorineural Hearing Loss

Takahashi¹,

Odagiri²,

Sato³

et al. 2005

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“…A time-series analysis of stress and vertigo expression did not support the role of stress as a precursor of symptoms in Menière's disease (Andersson et al, 1997). On the contrary, Sö derman et al did find that emotional stress increased the risk of getting a vertigo attack (Sö derman et al, 2004).…”

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Psychological assessment of patients with Menière's disease

Cruijsen

Jaspers

Wiel

et al. 2006

International Journal of Audiology

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“…Demographic features, familial MD history, accompanying other systemic chronic disease history, and bilaterality of the disease findings were similar to those of other studies [36][37][38][39][40][41] . It has been reported that the emotional stress is the most powerful attack indicator [31,[41][42][43][44] . Our finding was the same.…”

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The Reliability and Validity of “Dokuz Eylül University Meniere’s Disease Disability Scale”

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OBJECTIVE:Ménière's Disease (MD) is a chronic, non-life threatening inner ear disease, with attacks of disabling vertigo, progressive hearing loss, and tinnitus as the major symptoms. All three symptoms, separately or in combination, cause great distress and have a considerable impact on the quality of life of the patients. The aims of this study were to develop a disease-specific quality of life survey for patients with MD and to analyze the relationships between the audiovestibular findings and the survey. MATERIALS and METHODS:Following Ear-Nose-Throat examination and audiovestibular tests, the Dokuz Eylül University Meniere's Disease Disability Scale (DEU-MDDS) and Turkish version of the Dizziness Handicap Inventory (DHI-T) were administered to 93 patients with definite MD. Reliability and validity analyses of the scale were performed. RESULTS:There were 45 (48.4%) male and 48 (51.6%) female patients and the mean age was 48.9±12.1 years. Cronbach's alpha was 0.92 and intraclass correlation coefficients of the DEU-MMDS were significant (p<0.001). Results of the Goodness of Fit Statistics showed that the expression levels of the items were high and the correlation coefficients of each item with the scale were sufficient. There was a statistically significant correlation between DHI-T scores and MDDS. DEU-MDDS was not related to the vestibular tests, age or gender (p>0.05). CONCLUSION:The MDDS is a valid and reliable scale as a disease-specific quality of life questionnaire for patients with MD.

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Stress as a Trigger of Attacks in Menière's Disease. A Case‐Crossover Study

Abstract: Being exposed to emotional stress increases the risk of getting an attack of Menière's disease during the next hour, and the hazard period is possibly extended up to 3 hours.

Cited by 67 publications

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Personal Factors Involved in Onset or Progression of Ménière’s Disease and Low-Tone Sensorineural Hearing Loss

Personal Factors Involved in Onset or Progression of Ménière’s Disease and Low-Tone Sensorineural Hearing Loss

Psychological assessment of patients with Menière's disease

The Reliability and Validity of “Dokuz Eylül University Meniere’s Disease Disability Scale”

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