Age-related hearing loss and blood pressure.
Noise Health
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2006 Apr-Jun; 8(31): 88-94
Article
in English
| IMSEAR
| ID: sea-121961
ABSTRACT
A review of the literature studying possible correlations between hearing function and cardiovascular disease (CVD) reveals a complex and somewhat contradictory picture. Most studies favor the concept of an association between hearing loss and CVD. The issue of interactions between noise-induced hearing loss and CVD, as well as between age-related hearing loss and CVD, has been discussed in numerous publications. The present study utilizes information from an epidemiological study of elderly people in Gothenburg, Sweden. We found a probable correlation between high systolic blood pressure and hearing loss in the low and mid frequencies in elderly women, 79 years old. A tendency of a similar correlation was also found in a group of 85-year-old women. An association between high diastolic blood pressure and low- and mid-frequency hearing loss was also found in the group of women aged 85 years. No consistent associations between blood pressure or hypertension and auditory function were found in 70- and 75-year-old women or in men 70 to 85 years old.
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IMSEAR (South-East Asia)
Main subject:
Audiometry, Pure-Tone
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Sweden
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Blood Pressure
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Aged, 80 and over
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Aged
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Female
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Humans
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Male
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Cohort Studies
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Age Factors
Type of study:
Etiology study
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Incidence study
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Observational study
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Risk factors
Limits:
Aged80
Country/Region as subject:
Europa
Language:
English
Journal:
Noise Health
Journal subject:
Audiology
Year:
2006
Type:
Article
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