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As limiting as vertigo is, it\u2019s is considered a pretty harmless annoyance. In the worst case, it will cause broken bones after a bad fall. Right?<\/p>\nAs limiting as vertigo is, it\u2019s is considered a pretty harmless annoyance. In the worst case, it will cause broken bones after a bad fall. Right?<\/p>\n
Wrong!<\/p>\n
In fact, it may actually indicate you are suffering from a fatal disease that is not so obvious to spot.<\/p>\n
Chronic depression is a very dangerous disease with a high fatality rate. Add hyperthyroidism to the mix and the results are even more devastating.<\/p>\n
All the studies researching the connection have found that people with vertigo are more likely to suffer from depression than people without vertigo. <\/p>\n
But does the connection go the other way around? Does depression potentially cause vertigo?<\/p>\n
This is what a group of Taiwanese researchers decided to explore.<\/p>\n
Almost all Taiwanese citizens use the National Health Insurance program for healthcare, so that was the perfect place to start.<\/p>\n
From this database, they identified 10,297 people who were diagnosed with depressive disorders between the years of 2000 and 2009. <\/p>\n
They drew the records of a further 41,188 people that did not have depressive orders with whom to compare the first group against.<\/p>\n
After a few years, they noticed that people diagnosed with depressive disorders were 1.55 times more likely to develop vertigo than their psychologically healthy peers.<\/p>\n
People with both depression and hyperthyroidism had a further increased risk of vertigo, which was 3.75 times more likely to occur than the healthy population.<\/p>\n
Those with both depression and systemic lupus erythematosus together were 3.47 times more likely to develop vertigo than their healthy peers.<\/p>\n
In other words, depression is a vertigo risk, and if it co-occurs with hyperthyroidism or systemic lupus erythematosus, the risk increases even more.<\/p>\n