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: Received: 29 February 2024 / Approved: 29 February 2024 / Online: 1 March 2024 (08:18:26 CET)
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Tziridis, K.; Neubert, B.; Seehaus, A. R. A.; Krauss, P.; Schilling, A.; Brüggemann, P.; Mazurek, B.; Schulze, H. Correlation of Non-Auditory Comorbidities and Hearing Loss in Tinnitus Patients. Preprints2024, 2024021763. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202402.1763.v1
Tziridis, K.; Neubert, B.; Seehaus, A. R. A.; Krauss, P.; Schilling, A.; Brüggemann, P.; Mazurek, B.; Schulze, H. Correlation of Non-Auditory Comorbidities and Hearing Loss in Tinnitus Patients. Preprints 2024, 2024021763. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202402.1763.v1
Tziridis, K.; Neubert, B.; Seehaus, A. R. A.; Krauss, P.; Schilling, A.; Brüggemann, P.; Mazurek, B.; Schulze, H. Correlation of Non-Auditory Comorbidities and Hearing Loss in Tinnitus Patients. Preprints2024, 2024021763. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202402.1763.v1
APA Style
Tziridis, K., Neubert, B., Seehaus, A. R. A., Krauss, P., Schilling, A., Brüggemann, P., Mazurek, B., & Schulze, H. (2024). Correlation of Non-Auditory Comorbidities and Hearing Loss in Tinnitus Patients. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202402.1763.v1
Chicago/Turabian Style
Tziridis, K., Birgit Mazurek and Holger Schulze. 2024 "Correlation of Non-Auditory Comorbidities and Hearing Loss in Tinnitus Patients" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202402.1763.v1
Abstract
Tinnitus is a symptom often associated with hearing loss (HL) and is in many cases more burdening to the individual than the HL itself. Many approaches have been made to explain the development and chronification of the phantom percept as well as different treatment strategies to lower the tinnitus related burden. In many studies, the variance of the HL data is high and therefore the interpretation of specific data might be difficult. With this retrospective study, we attempt to explain a part of this variance by investigating specifically the effects of non-auditory comorbidity categories on pure-tone audiometric data in a tinnitus patient collective that was homogeneous with respect to auditory comorbidities. We found age dependent as well as number of non-auditory comorbidity (e.g. diabetes mellitus) dependent differences in the mean HL of the tinnitus patients as well as differences in the peak HL frequency relative to the tinnitus frequency. The analysis of the age dependent HL within the different non-auditory comorbidities revealed specific – partially opposed – effects of endocrine, circulatory, muscle-skeletal and digestive disease categories on the hearing thresholds of tinnitus patients. Taken together we argue that in future tinnitus (and non-tinnitus) patient studies also non-auditory comorbidities should be taken into account as possible covariables that might explain the variance found in the auditory threshold development of these patients.
Keywords
tinnitus; comorbidities; audiometry; retrospective patient study
Subject
Medicine and Pharmacology, Otolaryngology
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