Association Between Retinal Pathology and Hearing in Older Adults
Abstract We investigated the association between retinal microvascular changes and hearing loss based on the hypothesis that both may result from shared microvascular pathology. Data from 536 older adults from the National Health and Nutritional Examination Survey 2005 to 2006 including sociodemogra...
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| author | Zahra N. Sayyid Armaan F. Akbar Kening Jiang Jacob M. Pogson Nicholas S. Andresen Jennifer A. Deal Bryan K. Ward |
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| description | Abstract We investigated the association between retinal microvascular changes and hearing loss based on the hypothesis that both may result from shared microvascular pathology. Data from 536 older adults from the National Health and Nutritional Examination Survey 2005 to 2006 including sociodemographic and health characteristics, pure‐tone hearing thresholds, and retinal pathologies were collected and analyzed. Associations between retinal and hearing pathologies were modeled with multivariable‐adjusted linear regressions. 75% of participants had hearing loss and 15% of participants had retinopathy. The association between retinopathy, microaneurysms, and blot hemorrhages with better speech‐frequency pure tone average was −2.81 (95% confidence interval [CI]: −5.72 to 0.10), −4.75 (95% CI: −8.73 to −0.78), and −5.34 (95% CI: −8.68 to −2.00), respectively. The presence of retinopathy, microaneurysms, and blot hemorrhages was inversely associated with hearing loss. Further studies are needed to better understand the potential relationship between microvascular pathologies of the eye and ear. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-f621aa2dcf7a4fdd88223adfa524fd402023-12-26T15:36:31ZengWileyOTO Open2473-974X2023-10-0174n/an/a10.1002/oto2.99Association Between Retinal Pathology and Hearing in Older AdultsZahra N. Sayyid0Armaan F. Akbar1Kening Jiang2Jacob M. Pogson3Nicholas S. Andresen4Jennifer A. Deal5Bryan K. Ward6Department of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Baltimore Maryland USADepartment of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Baltimore Maryland USAJohns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Cochlear Center for Hearing and Public Health Baltimore Maryland USADepartment of Neurology Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Baltimore Maryland USADepartment of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Baltimore Maryland USADepartment of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Baltimore Maryland USADepartment of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Baltimore Maryland USAAbstract We investigated the association between retinal microvascular changes and hearing loss based on the hypothesis that both may result from shared microvascular pathology. Data from 536 older adults from the National Health and Nutritional Examination Survey 2005 to 2006 including sociodemographic and health characteristics, pure‐tone hearing thresholds, and retinal pathologies were collected and analyzed. Associations between retinal and hearing pathologies were modeled with multivariable‐adjusted linear regressions. 75% of participants had hearing loss and 15% of participants had retinopathy. The association between retinopathy, microaneurysms, and blot hemorrhages with better speech‐frequency pure tone average was −2.81 (95% confidence interval [CI]: −5.72 to 0.10), −4.75 (95% CI: −8.73 to −0.78), and −5.34 (95% CI: −8.68 to −2.00), respectively. The presence of retinopathy, microaneurysms, and blot hemorrhages was inversely associated with hearing loss. Further studies are needed to better understand the potential relationship between microvascular pathologies of the eye and ear.https://doi.org/10.1002/oto2.99hearing lossNational Health and Nutritional Examination Surveyretinal microvascular changesretinal pathology |
| spellingShingle | Zahra N. Sayyid Armaan F. Akbar Kening Jiang Jacob M. Pogson Nicholas S. Andresen Jennifer A. Deal Bryan K. Ward Association Between Retinal Pathology and Hearing in Older Adults OTO Open hearing loss National Health and Nutritional Examination Survey retinal microvascular changes retinal pathology |
| title | Association Between Retinal Pathology and Hearing in Older Adults |
| title_full | Association Between Retinal Pathology and Hearing in Older Adults |
| title_fullStr | Association Between Retinal Pathology and Hearing in Older Adults |
| title_full_unstemmed | Association Between Retinal Pathology and Hearing in Older Adults |
| title_short | Association Between Retinal Pathology and Hearing in Older Adults |
| title_sort | association between retinal pathology and hearing in older adults |
| topic | hearing loss National Health and Nutritional Examination Survey retinal microvascular changes retinal pathology |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1002/oto2.99 |
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