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Neuro-rehabilitation Approach for Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss
Published on: January 25, 2016
The relationship between serum lipid and sudden sensorineural hearing loss
Jiaying Huang1, Yongtian Xu1, Ling Li1
1Department of Otolaryngology, the Hefei First people's Hospital, Hefei, Anhui, China.
Background:
Hyperlipidemia may be part of the important mechanisms for the development of idiopathic sudden sensorineural hearing loss (ISSNHL).
Aims:
So the purpose of this study was to evaluate the relationship between changes in blood lipid levels and ISSNHL.
Materials And Methods:
We enrolled 90 ISSNHL patients in our hospital using a retrospective study design from 2019.1 to 2021.12. Blood levels of total cholesterol (TC), triglycerides (TG), and low-density lipoprotein (LDL-C). Hearing recovery was analyzed using the chi-square test and one-way analysis of variance (ANONA). Univariate and multifactorial Logstic retrospective analyses to establish the relationship between LDL-C/HDL-C ratio and hearing recovery after adjustment for potential confounding factors.
Results:
In our study, 65 (72.2%) patients had their hearing recovered. All group analyses and three group analyses (i.e. Excluding the no-recovery group) found that LDL/HDL was on an upward trend from complete recovery to a slight recovery group and strongly associated with hearing recovery. Univariate and multivariate logistic regression analysis found high levels of LDL and LDL/HDL in the partial hearing recovery group, relative to the full hearing recovery group. Curve fitting intuitively demonstrates the influence of blood lipids on prognosis.
Conclusions:
Our findings suggest that LDL. TC, TC/HDL, and LDL/HDL concentrations may be closely related to the pathogenesis of ISSNHL.
Significance:
Improving the relevant lipid test at the time of admission to the hospital has good clinical significance for improving the prognosis of ISSNHL.
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