<b>Objectives: </b>To evaluate the association of serum 25 hydroxy vitamin D (25OHD) and hearing impairment type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) patients. In addition, we aimed to examine whether T2DM-associated is correlated with severity diabetes.<br /> <b>Methods: </b>The present case-control study recruited adult patients T2DM healthy controls. Using pure-tone stimu...

INTRODUCTION Noise pollution in urban cities is a serious problem and steadily increasing over the years. This has direct and indirect affect to the people that can lead to the health hazard. OBJECTIVES To find out environmental noise induced health effect on people residing in an urban community and to predict the risk of the environmental noise induced hearing loss. MATERIAL AND METHODS O...

OBJECTIVE This study investigated the reliability, accuracy, and time efficiency of automated hearing assessment using a computer-based telemedicine-compliant audiometer. MATERIALS AND METHODS Thirty normal-hearing subjects and eight hearing-impaired subjects were tested with pure-tone air conduction audiometry (125-8,000 Hz) in a manual and automated configuration in a counterbalanced manner...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The relationship between diabetes and hearing loss has been debated for many years. Hyperglycemia appears to have an effect on hearing loss and the proposed mechanisms are microangiopathy, neuropathy or a combination of both. The objective of this study was to evaluate a cross section of hyperglycemic subjects with age- and sex-matched normoglycemic controls with pure ...

The ambient noise level and noise-induced hearing impairment (NIHI) in 200 motorbike riders from six motorbike parks were evaluated. All were males aged between 2062 years. Subjects were sampled using a cluster sampling technique. Parameters measured were environmental noise using the noise meter (peters) and hearing function using an audiometer (amplaid). A control group of 150 males was selec...