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▪ U.S. doctors reported 5,417,000 patient visits in 1991 because of dizziness or vertigo.
▪ "While the majority [of outpatient visits for balance problems in 1976] involved mild to moderate symptoms, disability was severe in an estimated 10 percent of the patients."
▪ The exact number of people with Meniere's disease is difficult to measure accurately because no official reporting system exists. Numbers used by researchers differ from one report to the next and from one country to the next. The National Institutes of Health estimates that about 545,000 people in the U.S. have Meniere's disease and that 38,250 are diagnosed each year.
▪ A study looking at one geographic area in Japan over a number of years estimated that 17 of every 100,000 people in the population would be diagnosed with Meniere's disease each year.
▪ In Rochester, Minnesota from 1951 to 1980, out of every 100,000 people in the population 218.2 had Meniere's disease and 15.3 would be diagnosed with it each year.