Association Between Retinal Pathology and Hearing in Older Adults

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We investigated the association between retinal microvascular changes and hearing loss based on the hypothesis that both may result from shared microvascular pathology. Data from 536 older adults from the National Health and Nutritional Examination Survey 2005 to 2006 including sociodemographic and health characteristics, pure-tone hearing thresholds, and retinal pathologies were collected and analyzed. Associations between retinal and hearing pathologies were modeled with multivariable-adjusted linear regressions. 75% of participants had hearing loss and 15% of participants had retinopathy. The association between retinopathy, microaneurysms, and blot hemorrhages with better speech-frequency pure tone average was -2.81 (95% confidence interval [CI]: -5.72 to 0.10), -4.75 (95% CI: -8.73 to -0.78), and -5.34 (95% CI: -8.68 to -2.00), respectively. The presence of retinopathy, microaneurysms, and blot hemorrhages was inversely associated with hearing loss. Further studies are needed to better understand the potential relationship between microvascular pathologies of the eye and ear.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:7

Enthalten in:

OTO open - 7(2023), 4 vom: 01. Okt., Seite e99

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Sayyid, Zahra N [VerfasserIn]
Akbar, Armaan F [VerfasserIn]
Jiang, Kening [VerfasserIn]
Pogson, Jacob M [VerfasserIn]
Andresen, Nicholas S [VerfasserIn]
Deal, Jennifer A [VerfasserIn]
Ward, Bryan K [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Hearing loss
Journal Article
National Health and Nutritional Examination Survey
Retinal microvascular changes
Retinal pathology

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Date Revised 14.12.2023

published: Electronic-eCollection

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.1002/oto2.99

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM365844233