Volume : 7, Issue : 1, January - 2018

Study of Sensorineural Hearing Loss (SNHL) among patients of Type 2 Diabetes mellitus (DM)

Tarun, Naveen Sharma, Uma Garg

Abstract :

<p>&nbsp;</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;&#10;line-height:115%">Diabetes<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">&nbsp; </span>mellitus<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">&nbsp; </span>is<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">&nbsp; </span>a<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">&nbsp; </span>multisystemic<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">&nbsp; </span>disease<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">&nbsp; </span>associated<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">&nbsp; </span>with<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">&nbsp; </span>many<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">&nbsp; </span>complications.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">&nbsp; </span>One<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">&nbsp; </span>of<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">&nbsp; </span>the<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">&nbsp; </span>known<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">&nbsp; </span>complications<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">&nbsp; </span>is<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">&nbsp; </span>hearing<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">&nbsp; </span>impairment.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">&nbsp; </span>This<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">&nbsp; </span>study<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">&nbsp; </span>done<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">&nbsp; </span>in<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">&nbsp; </span>a<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">&nbsp; </span>tertiary<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">&nbsp; </span>care<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">&nbsp; </span>hospital<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">&nbsp; </span>aims<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">&nbsp; </span>to<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">&nbsp; </span>evaluate<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">&nbsp; </span>the<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">&nbsp; </span>association<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">&nbsp; </span>between<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">&nbsp; </span>Type<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">&nbsp; </span>2<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">&nbsp; </span>Diabetes<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">&nbsp; </span>mellitus<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">&nbsp; </span>and<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">&nbsp; </span>hearing<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">&nbsp; </span>loss.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">&nbsp; </span>A<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">&nbsp; </span>total<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">&nbsp; </span>of<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">&nbsp; </span>100<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">&nbsp; </span>subjects ( 50<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">&nbsp; </span>known<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">&nbsp; </span>diabetics<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">&nbsp; </span>and<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">&nbsp; </span>50<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">&nbsp; </span>age<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">&nbsp; </span>and<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">&nbsp; </span>sex<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">&nbsp; </span>matched<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">&nbsp; </span>controls )<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">&nbsp; </span>were<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">&nbsp; </span>studied.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">&nbsp; </span>Results<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">&nbsp; </span>showed<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">&nbsp; </span>that<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">&nbsp; </span>the<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">&nbsp; </span>mean<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">&nbsp; </span>threshold<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">&nbsp; </span>of<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">&nbsp; </span>hearing<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">&nbsp; </span>was<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">&nbsp; </span>higher<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">&nbsp; </span>in<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">&nbsp; </span>diabetics.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">&nbsp; </span>High<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">&nbsp; </span>prevalence<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">&nbsp; </span>of<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">&nbsp; </span>hearing<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">&nbsp; </span>loss<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">&nbsp; </span>in<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">&nbsp; </span>Diabetes<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">&nbsp; </span>mellitus<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">&nbsp; </span>supports<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">&nbsp; </span>the<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">&nbsp; </span>need<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">&nbsp; </span>of<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">&nbsp; </span>audiometric<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">&nbsp; </span>evaluation<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">&nbsp; </span>in<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">&nbsp; </span>such<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">&nbsp; </span>patients<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">&nbsp; </span>so<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">&nbsp; </span>that<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">&nbsp; </span>early<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">&nbsp; </span>intervention<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">&nbsp; </span>can<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">&nbsp; </span>be<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">&nbsp; </span>done.<o:p></o:p></span></p>