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Neuro-rehabilitation Approach for Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss
Published on: January 25, 2016
A prospective case-controlled study of patients presenting with idiopathic sensorineural hearing loss to examine the
1Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Queen's Medical Centre, University Hospital, Nottingham, UK.
Abstract:
The prevalence of hyperlipidaemia in the normal population means that hyperlipidaemia is often found in patients who have a hearing loss of unknown aetiology. We prospectively undertook a case-controlled study of 85 patients presenting consecutively with a sensorineural hearing loss of unknown aetiology to see if the prevalence of hyperlipidaemia differed between the group with an idiopathic sensorineural hearing loss and a control population. Control subjects were recruited from patients undergoing nasal surgery for structural abnormalities. Both the study and control groups were also compared with the National Study of Hearing data. Hyperlipidaemia was no more prevalent in a population with idiopathic sensorineural hearing loss than a control population. No consistent association between hyperlipidaemia and hearing loss was found.