Abstract
INTRODUCTION:
Diabetes mellitus (DM) is an important healthcare concern in the modern world. This disease and its complications can affect virtually every system in the human body. A possible complication of DM is sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL).
AIM:
The current study aimed to evaluate the prevalence of SNHL among the patients of type-2 DM attending the hospital as well as to correlate the severity of hearing loss to the duration of diabetes and the glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA1c) levels. A total of 125 known cases of type-2 DM were included in the study.
METHODOLOGY:
For each patient, a detailed history was taken, thorough clinical ear, nose, and throat examination was done, hearing thresholds were evaluated by means of pure tone audiometry and HbA1c levels were measured.
RESULTS:
SNHL was seen in 76.8% of the patients. Robust correlation was seen between the severity of SNHL and the duration of DM (
P
< 0.0001,
r
coefficient 0.3668). Positive correlation was seen between SNHL and HbA1c levels (
P
= 0.0001,
r
coefficient 0.3517).
CONCLUSION:
This study confirms that there is a high prevalence of SNHL in type-2 DM.
Recommended Citation
Tiwari, Aniruddh and Mudhol, Ramesh S.
(2018)
"Prevalence of sensorineural hearing loss among type-II diabetes mellitus patients attending KLES Dr. Prabhakar Kore Hospital and MRC A cross-sectional study,"
Indian Journal of Health Sciences and Biomedical Research KLEU: Vol. 11:
Iss.
2, Article 14.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4103/kleuhsj.kleuhsj_187_17
Available at:
https://kleijhsbr.researchcommons.org/journal/vol11/iss2/14
Pages
165
Last Page
169
Copyright
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