Diabetes mellitus and sensorineural hearing loss among non-elderly people

Mozaffari, M; Tajik, Ali; Ariaei, N; Ali-Ehyaii, F; Behnam, H

doi:10.26719/2010.16.9.947

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“…Thus, it can be concluded that there was increased existence of hearing loss with increasing age in the present study. Our findings are similar to most other studies, [8,19,20,22] but one, which reports no correlation with age. [9] Axelsson [24] showed that the incidence of pure tone hearing loss increases with age in patients with diabetes, even after correction for presbycusis.…”

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confidence: 93%

“…Different studies conducted earlier have reported an incidence of hearing loss in patients with diabetes mellitus ranging from 13% to 95%. Our results are nearly similar to most studies; [14,[16][17][18][19] but quite low as compared to few others. [9,20] However the present study reports a higher prevalence of SNHL in comparison to some studies.…”

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confidence: 91%

“…For all the diabetic subjects with hearing losses, the thresholds of hearing in both air and bone conductions showed greater increments at higher frequencies. Most other authors have reported similar findings; [8,9,19,20,22] but these authors have reported stronger association at higher frequencies; however, there are others who report the strongest association at low and middle tone frequencies. [14,15] The variations in sample size and selection criteria seem to be the probable causes of the variations observed.…”

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confidence: 70%

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Hearing Status in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus

Meena¹,

Sonkhya²,

Sonkya³

et al. 2016

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OBJECTIVESThe aim of this study was to assess the audiological characteristics of type 2 diabetes mellitus patients and to find out the association of hearing loss, if any with age, duration and metabolic control of disease. MATERIAL & METHODSThis study assessed the hearing thresholds of 50 diabetic subjects and 50 age and sex matched healthy controls on pure tone audiometry. All the participants were also subjected to assessment of fasting and postprandial glucose levels, glycosylated haemoglobin levels, serum creatinine and presence of microalbuminuria. RESULTSThis study found statistically significant (p<0.001) increments in pure tone audiometric thresholds in diabetic patients in comparison to the control population along with hearing loss in 58% diabetics. The hearing loss was of sensorineural type varying from mild-to-moderate grades. Age correlated positively with pure tone audiometric thresholds in diabetic subjects. The duration of diabetes affected the presence of hearing loss in diabetics, but it did not affect the severity of hearing loss in the patients. Sex and metabolic control of the disease had no association with SNHL. CONCLUSIONThe use of audiological tests to monitor diabetic patients should be considered as a routine procedure in the same way as eye fundus examination and microalbuminuria assessment are. KEYWORDSPure tone audiometry, Sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL), Type 2 Diabetes mellitus. HOW TO CITE THIS ARTICLE: Meena RL, Sonkhya D, Sonkya N, et al. Hearing status in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus.

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confidence: 91%

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confidence: 70%

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Hearing Status in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus

Meena¹,

Sonkhya²,

Sonkya³

et al. 2016

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“…Our results are similar to those of Ramlakhan Meena (58%) Nagoshi Y et al (54%); Friedmann SA et al (55%); Boomsma LJ and Stolk RP (48%); Weng SF et al (44.8%) and Mozaffari M et al (45%). [20][21][22][23][24][25] However, a higher prevalence of sensorineural hearing loss was noted in few studies conducted by Rajendran S et al (73.3%) and Harkare V et al (74%) and a very high prevalence was noted in a study done by Rózańska-Kudelska M et al (95%) among the diabetics patients. [26][27][28] Similarly a comparatively lower prevalence was observed in studies conducted by Somogyi A et al (34%) and Saini S et al (30%) and Kakarlapudi V et al (13.1%).…”

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confidence: 99%

Prevalence and factors influencing sensorineural hearing loss among type II diabetes mellitus patients

2018

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Background: The typical hearing loss described among diabetes patients is progressive, bilateral, sensorineural deafness of gradual onset that predominantly affects the higher frequencies. Although there is mounting evidence for a relationship between diabetes and hearing impairment the awareness of auditory organ involvement in the course of diabetes is still not widespread among healthcare providers involved in diabetes care. Objective of present study was to assess the prevalence and the factors influencing sensorineural deafness among the patients with type II diabetes mellitus.Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted at our hospital for a period of 6 months. All type II diabetes patients without any other major systemic illness (CVA, coronary artery disease, thyroid disorders) were included for the study. A total of 300 patients were included in our study and the informed consent was obtained from all the study participants. A detailed history related to hearing loss and diabetes status was elicited from all the patients. All basic blood investigations along with HbA1c was performed on all the patients. All the patients were subjected to pure tone audiometry and it was performed using a pure tone audiometer model AUL 12096 audiometer of Labat company in a sound proof room.Results: The total prevalence of sensori-neural deafness among the study subjects was found to be 51.3% with majority of them having mild to moderate degree of sensori-neural deafness. Increase in age, female gender, longer duration of diabetes and higher HbA1C levels are the factors which had influenced the state of sensorineural deafness among the study subjects.Conclusions: The use of audiological test at primary care level should be made mandate for screening all the diabetes patients for hearing loss such a way the quality of life can be improved for patients requiring therapeutic interventions for their hearing improvement.

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“…Associations were entirely due to stronger correlations in the youngest age group examined (<50 years) and were not seen in the two older tertiles (Austin et al 2009). Finally, an association between the duration of diabetes and hearing loss was found in the majority of studies that looked for one (Kurt et al 2002; Mitchell et al 2009; Mozaffari et al 2010). Notably, some large, well-controlled studies did not (Bainbridge et al 2011; Lerman-Garber et al 2012).…”

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Hearing Impairment in Relation to Severity of Diabetes in a Veteran Cohort

Konrad-Martin

Reavis²,

Austin

et al. 2015

Ear &Amp; Hearing

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Objective Type 2 diabetes is epidemic among veterans, approaching three times the prevalence of the general population. Diabetes leads to devastating complications of vascular and neurologic malfunction and appears to impair auditory function. Hearing loss prevention is a major health-related initiative in the Veterans Health Administration. Thus, this research sought to identify, and quantify with effect sizes, differences in hearing, speech recognition, and hearing-related quality of life (QOL) measures associated with diabetes and to determine whether well-controlled diabetes diminishes the differences. Design The authors examined selected cross-sectional data from the baseline (initial) visit of a longitudinal study of Veterans with and without type 2 diabetes designed to assess the possible differences in age-related trajectories of peripheral and central auditory function between the two groups. In addition, the diabetes group was divided into subgroups on the basis of medical diagnosis of diabetes and current glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) as a metric of disease severity and control. Outcome measures were pure-tone thresholds, word recognition using sentences presented in noise or time-compressed, and an inventory assessing the self-perceived impact of hearing loss on QOL. Data were analyzed from 130 Veterans ages 24 to 73 (mean 48) years with well-controlled (controlled) diabetes, poorly controlled (uncontrolled) diabetes, prediabetes, and no diabetes. Regression was used to identify any group differences in age, noise exposure history, and other sociodemographic factors, and multiple regression was used to model each outcome variable, adjusting for potential confounders. Results were evaluated in relation to diabetes duration, use of insulin (yes, no), and presence of selected diabetes complications (neuropathy and retinopathy). Results Compared with nondiabetics, Veterans with uncontrolled diabetes had significant differences in hearing at speech frequencies, including poorer hearing by 3 to 3.5 dB for thresholds at 250 Hz and in a clinical pure-tone average, respectively. Compared with nondiabetic controls, individuals with uncontrolled diabetes also significantly more frequently reported that their hearing adversely impacted QOL on one of the three subscales (ability to adapt). Despite this, although they also had slightly poorer mean scores on both word recognition tasks performed, these differences did not reach statistical significance and all subjects performed well on these tasks. Compared with Veterans with controlled diabetes, those with uncontrolled disease tended to have had diabetes longer, be insulin-dependent, and have a greater prevalence of diabetic retinopathy. Results are generally comparable with the literature with regard to the magnitude of threshold differences and the prevalence of hearing impairment but extend prior work by providing threshold difference and hearing loss prevalence effect sizes by category of diabetes control and by including additional functional measures. ...

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Diabetes mellitus and sensorineural hearing loss among non-elderly people

Cited by 44 publications

References 13 publications

Hearing Status in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus

Hearing Status in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus

Prevalence and factors influencing sensorineural hearing loss among type II diabetes mellitus patients

Hearing Impairment in Relation to Severity of Diabetes in a Veteran Cohort

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