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Prevalence of motion sickness in various vestibular disorders: a study on 749 patients

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Funding

This study was supported by a grant from the BMBF to the IFB (Grant code 01 EO 0901).

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  1. Department of Neurology, Ludwig Maximilians University, Campus Grosshadern, Marchioninistrasse 15, 81377, Munich, Germany

    Michael Strupp

  2. German Center for Vertigo and Balance Disorders, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Germany

    Michael Strupp, Thomas Brandt, Doreen Huppert & Eva Grill

  3. Institute for Clinical Neurosciences, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Germany

    Thomas Brandt & Doreen Huppert

  4. Institute for Medical Information Processing, Biometrics and Epidemiology, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Germany

    Eva Grill

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T. Brandt, D. Huppert and E. Grill declare that there are no COI. M. Strupp is Joint Chief Editor of the Journal of Neurology, Editor in Chief of Frontiers of Neuro-otology and Section Editor of F1000. He has received speaker’s honoraria from Abbott, Actelion, Auris Medical, Biogen, Eisai, GSK, Henning Pharma, Interacoustics, MSD, Otometrics, Pierre-Fabre, TEVA, UCB. He acts as a consultant for Abbott, Actelion, AurisMedical, Heel, IntraBio and Sensorion.

Ethical approval

The questionnaire used in our study was part of a clinical routine assessment made after obtaining the prior written informed consent of the outpatients who presented at the dizziness unit. The evaluation of the data was completely anonymized. Ethical approval was not required for this study according to the ethical standards laid down in the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki.

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Eva Grill, PhD, Institute for Medical Information Processing, Biometrics and Epidemiology and German Center for Vertigo and Balance Disorders, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Campus Grosshadern, Marchioninistrasse 15, 81377 Munich, Germany, conducted the statistical analysis.

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This manuscript is part of a supplement sponsored by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research within the funding initiative for integrated research and treatment centers.

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Strupp, M., Brandt, T., Huppert, D. et al. Prevalence of motion sickness in various vestibular disorders: a study on 749 patients. J Neurol 265 (Suppl 1), 95–97 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00415-018-8961-1

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