UNLABELLED Hearing loss and tinnitus impact the lives of workers in every instance of their lives. AIM This paper aims to investigate the existence of a dose-response relationship between hearing loss and tinnitus by determining whether higher levels of hearing loss can be associated with increased tinnitus-related discomfort. MATERIALS AND METHOD This cross-sectional case study assessed 28...

PURPOSE The possible relationship between audiometric hearing thresholds and cognitive performance on language tests was analyzed in a cross-sectional cohort of older adults aged ≥65 years (N=98) with different degrees of cognitive impairment. MATERIALS AND METHODS Participants were distributed into two groups according to Reisberg's Global Deterioration Scale (GDS): a normal/predementia grou...

INTRODUCTION Auditory steady-state responses (ASSR) are an important tool to detect objectively frequency-specific hearing thresholds. Pure-tone audiometry is the gold-standard for hearing evaluation, although sometimes it may be inconclusive, especially in children and uncooperative adults. AIM Compare pure tone thresholds (PT) with ASSR thresholds in normal hearing subjects. MATERIALS AND...

INTRODUCTION In ideal listening situations, subjects with normal hearing can easily understand speech, as can many subjects who have a hearing loss. OBJECTIVE To present the validation of the Word Recognition Test in a Free Field in the Presence of Noise in normal-hearing adults. METHODS Sample consisted of 100 healthy adults over 18 years of age with normal hearing. After pure tone audiome...

We analyse the neurootological data of patients attended in the Ear, Nose and Throat (E.N.T.) department of the Centro Hospitalar de Vila Nova de Gaia for a tinnitus problem. We submitted these patients to our neurootological routine evaluation. This approach is justified in a tinnitus patient because the cochleovestibular system is a unit and acts as a whole. We characterise the population tha...

Cigarette smoking is a well known health problem affecting various body organs. There is a dearth of literature on early changes in auditory functioning at high frequency due to smoking. Hence, the present study aimed to investigate the audiological parameters for 100 chronic smokers. Their results were compared to 50 non smokers. Audiological test battery included conventional pure tone audiom...

OBJECTIVE To identify the prevalence of hearing loss for the population in the urban area. METHODS A cross-sectional household survey based on the World Health Organization Ear and Hearing Disorders Survey Protocol was conducted in 298 households in the urban area of Monte Negro, Rondonia, Northern Brazil, from 2005 to 2007. Ear examinations, behavioral audiometry and pure tone audiometry wer...

OBJECTIVE To estimate the validity of three single questions used to assess self-reported hearing loss as compared to pure-tone audiometry in an adult population. METHODS A validity study was performed with a random sub-sample of 188 subjects aged 30 to 65 years, drawn from the fourth wave of a population-based cohort study carried out in Salvador, Northeastern Brazil. Data were collected in ...

This study evaluated the interference of tinnitus on the quality of life for noise-exposed workers enrolled in a hearing conservation program. Noise measurements, a questionnaire, a Brazilian version of the Tinnitus Handicap Inventory (THI), and pure-tone audiometry were conducted with 52 participants (mean age, 29 years) who suffered from tinnitus. THI results indicated that tinnitus had the g...

OBJECTIVE To examine the secular change of the prevalence of hearing impairment over three decades in U.S. adults with and without diabetes. METHODS The cross-sectional National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (NHANES, the 1971-1973 [NHANES I] and the 1999-2004 [NHANES 1999-2004]) were used. Average pure-tone audiometry thresholds in decibels (dB) at 1, 2, 3, and 4 kHz frequencies of...