Although dizziness can indicate a diseased heart, there are causes other than heart disease such as labyrinthitis, diabetes mellitus, high cholesterol, hypotension, hypoglycemia and migraine, which can also cause frequent dizziness.
Therefore, if you have more than 2 episodes of dizziness per day, make an appointment with a doctor and say how often and under what conditions the dizziness appears. In this way, the cardiologist will be able to make an analysis of the probable cause, evaluating whether or not it is a situation related to the heart. See: Know the causes and what to do in case of dizziness.
Heart diseases that cause dizziness
Some heart diseases that can make you dizzy are: cardiac arrhythmias, heart valve disease and a big heart.
In a heart failure, the heart loses the ability to pump blood to the rest of the body, and can sometimes be fatal, especially when it takes too long to diagnose the problem.
The treatment for these causes can be done using medicines indicated by the cardiologist and sometimes, they need surgery.
Other diseases that cause dizziness
One of the most common causes of dizziness in healthy young people is vasovagal syndrome, in which the patient may experience a sudden drop in blood pressure, or heart rate, in stressful situations, strong emotions, when they stay in the same position for a long time or exercise too much. One test that can be performed to detect this syndrome is the Tilt-Test, which can be performed in cardiology clinics.
In the elderly, dizziness is very common in labyrinthitis and also in postural hypotension. In labyrinthitis, dizziness is of the rotational type, that is, the individual feels that everything around him is spinning. There is an imbalance and people try to hold on so they don't fall. In postural hypotension, which occurs a lot in hypertensive patients, the person becomes dizzy when trying to change position. For example, when you get out of bed, when you bend down to pick up an object on the floor.
As there are many causes of dizziness, it is important that the patient with this symptom, see a cardiologist to rule out serious causes of dizziness such as arrhythmia or aortic stenosis. See the symptoms of cardiac arrhythmia.
