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Marcia Mattos Marques1, Mauricio Malavasi Ganança, Carolina Mattos Marques
1Federal University of São Paulo, Brasil. marcia.mattos@unifesp.br
Objective:
To compare the academic performance of university students with or without neurotological symptoms.
Method:
100 students enrolled in the Biomedical Sciences Graduate School - Medical Modality of UNIFESP-EPM in 2007 and answered a neurotological screening questionnaire.
Results:
The symptoms presented once, sometimes, many times or always, in a decreasing order of prevalence, were headache (74.0%), difficulty with concentration (57.0%), lack of memory (45.0%), physical indisposition, nausea /dizziness when in moving vehicle (37.0%), fainting (27.0%), nausea (26.0%), sensation of fullness in the ear (26.0%), hypersensitivity to sounds (26.0%), tinnitus (22.0%), vertigo and other kinds of dizziness (21.0%), imbalance when walking (21.0%), difficulty in hearing (21.0%), imminent sensation of fainting (11.0%) and vomiting (8.0%), alone or in different associations; convulsion was not mentioned. The final academic performance score ranged from 5.1 to 10.0.
Conclusion:
University students with or without neurotological symptoms have manifested similar academic performance.
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