イディオパシー性突発性感覚神経性聴覚障害における気象学的要因: 遡及的研究

Athanasios Vlachodimitropoulos¹, Gerasimos Danielides¹, Theodoros Stathas¹

¹Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, University General Hospital of Patras, Patras, GRC.

Cureus

|September 2, 2025

まとめ

イディオパシー突然の感覚神経性聴覚障害 (ISSNHL) の発生は季節的ではなく,低風速と潜在的に低い大気圧に関連していました. 静かな天候は難聴のリスクを高めます

科学分野:

耳鼻喉科
環境医学
流行病学

背景:

Idiopathic sudden sensorineural hearing loss (ISSNHL) は,原因が不明な緊急の聴覚障害である. 聴覚障害は,聴覚神経の機能が低下し,聴覚神経の機能が低下し,聴覚神経の機能が低下する.
環境要因が引き起こすと考えられていますが証拠は相反しています
ISSNHLの管理には,潜在的な環境関連を理解することが不可欠です.

研究の目的:

週間のISSNHL発生と気象変数との関連を調査する.
地中海沿岸の都市から 6年間のデータを分析した
ISSNHLの潜在的な環境リスク要因を特定する.

主な方法:

2019年1月から2025年5月までの97件のISSNHL症例の遡及分析
週間のISSNHL発生と平均週間の気象データ (気温,風速,大気圧) の相関
高頻度と低頻度期間における気象変数の統計的比較,遅延効果分析を含む.

主要な成果:

ISSNHLの有意な季節的パターンは観察されなかった (p=0. 973).
低い風速は一貫して高いISSNHL発生率 (p<0.05) と関連付けられました.
大気圧の低下傾向は高頻度期間中に認められ,気温は有意な関連性を示さなかった.

結論:

この地中海環境でのISSNHLの発生は季節的に影響を受けません.
風速が低く,気圧が低くなると,ISSNHLの危険性が高まります.
静かな大気条件は,空気質や圧力ダイナミクスなどのメカニズムを通じてISSNHLの病因に役割を果たす可能性があります.

キーワード:

大気圧空気圧環境衛生イスンヒル気象学突然の聴覚障害風速

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