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ArticleJournal of medicine and life2022

Prevalence of hearing loss among patients with type 2 diabetes.

Mohammadreza Shafiepour, Zahra Bamdad, Masoud Radman

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Article in Journal of medicine and life, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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13citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
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3 · Its place in the literature

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13 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 24 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Characteristics of Hearing Loss in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Otolaryngology--head and neck surgery : official journal of American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery · 2025
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  2. Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus and Hearing Loss: A Prisma Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Otolaryngology--head and neck surgery : official journal of American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery · 2025
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  9. Type 1 diabetes mellitus increases the risk of sudden sensorineural hearing loss: A two-sample Mendelian randomization study.Zhong nan da xue xue bao. Yi xue ban = Journal of Central South University. Medical sciences · 2024
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Mohammadreza ShafiepourDepartment of Internal Medicine, Rafsanjan University of Medical Sciences, Rafsanjan, Iran.
Zahra BamdadDepartment of Otolaryngology, Faculty of Medicine, Rafsanjan University of Medical Sciences, Rafsanjan, Iran.
Masoud RadmanDepartment of Otolaryngology, Faculty of Medicine, Rafsanjan University of Medical Sciences, Rafsanjan, Iran.
Rafsanjan University of Medical Sciences · IR

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The auditory pathway is the main target for high levels of blood sugar. Increased glucose in diabetic patients can disrupt the auditory system physiologically and anatomically. The present study aimed to examine the prevalence of hearing loss in patients with type 2 diabetes. A total of 94 patients with type 2 diabetes, aged from 40 to 80 years, were selected randomly in the present descriptive cross-sectional study for pure tone audiometry (PTA), speech discrimination score (SDS), and speech reception threshold (SRT) tests. Accordingly, patients with a hearing threshold larger than or equal to 25 dB were considered hearing-impaired according to the PTA test. In addition, the patients' speech discrimination score was measured using a list of monosyllabic words with an intensity of 40 dB or more than the SDS test. However, in the SRT test, the patients' superficial speech comprehension threshold was measured using a list of two-syllable words. Most diabetic patients had hearing loss in both right and left ears based on the PTA and SRT tests. However, they did not have hearing loss in both ears according to the SDS test. There was no correlation between the PTA, SRT, and SDS tests and blood creatinine levels in both ears (p>0.05). Nevertheless, the right ear had a positive correlation with systolic blood pressure only in the PTA test (p<0.05). The difference between the two groups of men and women with type 2 diabetes in the hearing level in the right and left ears was not statistically significant. Hearing loss is a common deficiency in diabetic patients. In addition, it seems that diabetes is an independent risk factor for the hearing loss level.

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Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2Hearing LossAdultAgedAged, 80 and overAudiometry, Pure-ToneCross-Sectional StudiesFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedPrevalencediabetes mellitushearing losspure tone audiometrytype 2

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PMID35928370
PMCPMC9321482
OpenAlexW4289952791

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