Influence of a Cold Front upon the Onset of Meniere's Disease in Toyama, Japan
- 1 January 1995
- journal article
- Published by Taylor & Francis Ltd in Acta Oto-Laryngologica
- Vol. 115 (sup520), 412-414
- https://doi.org/10.3109/00016489509125285
Abstract
In order to clarify the influence of a cold front (CF) upon the onset of Meniére's disease (MD), major CFs were defined by meteorological observations, and the influence of CFs on MD was evaluated by using the time n method. From our preliminary study it was seen that the onset of MD had its highest incidence exactly on days where a CF passed by. Out of the patients with MD, sudden deafness (SD) and Bell's palsy (BP) who visited our neurotological clinic of the Toyama Medical and Pharmaceutical University from 1987 to 1992, 67 MD patients, 70 SD patients and 70 BP patients could clearly define the date of the onset of their disease, and were therefore selected for this epidemiological study. Thirty-six our of the 67 MD patients had the first attack on the day when a CF passed by or on the next day. The results obtained from these studies were as follows. i) The onset of MD was influenced by the passing of a CF, and this influence was more specific in MD than in SD or BP. ii) In the 36 CF influence MD patients, the majority were over the forty years, and their hearing level was worse than that of the other 31 MD patients during the observation periods.Keywords
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