Analysis of Nation-wide Surveys of Meniere's Disease

Two-nation-wide surveys of Meniere's disease have been carried out by the Vestibular Disorders Reserch Committee of Japan, supported by the Ministry of Health and Welfare of Japan. First survey has already been reported. In the second survey 1564 cases of definite and 1439 cases of presumed Meniere's disease were collected and their epidemiological and clinical features were analyzed. The second survey included the name, sex, age and other necessary items.Some items were compared with the results of the epidemiological and clinical surveys of the Meniere's Disease Reserch Committee of Japan reported in 1971.