Introduction: Hearing defects can cause inconvenience in communication which have prodigious impact on the psychological, social and emotional functions. The increasing incidence of diabetes profound effect hearing loss quality life mandates need to study possible association between two. Materials method: An observational was conducted including 100 participants such that 50 were non-diabetic ...

Abstract Background Cisplatin is a commonly used chemotherapeutic drug that associated with irreversible hearing loss. A number of antioxidants have been investigated for prevention, but data so far inconclusive. Objective The objective this study was to assess the efficacy various antioxidant therapies in preventing loss among adult patients treated cisplatin. Methodology We searched controlle...

To scrutinize the binaural contribution to speech-in-noise reception, four groups of elderly participants with or without audiometric asymmetry <2 kHz and with or without near-normal binaural intelligibility level difference (BILD) completed tests of monaural and binaural phase sensitivity as well as cognitive function. Groups did not differ in age, overall degree of hearing loss, or cognitive ...

Occupational noise-induced hearing loss remains a common problem in industry. This report presents a systematic method of patient evaluation and describes software that is capable of calculating hearing handicaps from audiometric data and the proportion of the handicap due to presbyacusis. The software also has the capability of subtracting the effects of presbyacusis from the current audiometr...

This study assessed the sensitivity, specificity and predictive value of hearing complaints in outpatients attending an university ear, nose and throat clinic. A cross-sectional study was carried out in Canoas, Southern Brazil, from 1999 to 2002. Seven-hundred and ninety-five subjects who underwent the audiometric test were analyzed. The results showed that the complaint of hearing loss present...

When screening participants for speech perception experiments, formal audiometric screens are often not an option, especially when studies are conducted over the Internet. We investigated whether a brief standardized self-report questionnaire, the screening version of the Hearing Handicap Inventory for Adults (HHIA-S), could be used to approximate the results of audiometric screening. Our resul...