Tinnitus in elderly rural population of Salem district Tamilnadu
Keywords:
tinnitus, Meniere's illness, elderly rural populationAbstract
Background: Most patients with both tinnitus and hearing loss report that the frequency of the tinnitus correlates with the severity and frequency characteristics of their hearing loss, and that the intensity of the tinnitus is usually less than 10 dB above the patient's hearing threshold at that frequency. Some patients who have central auditory processing disorders and have difficulties understanding speech in noise report experiencing tinnitus even though their pure-tone audiometric thresholds are normal. Less prevalent forms of tinnitus, such as those involving well-known musical tunes or voices without understandable speech, occur among older people with hearing loss and are believed to represent a central type of tinnitus involving reverberatory activity within neural loops at a high level of processing in the auditory cortex. Methodology: Present study is a longitudinal study conducted at ENT OPD, VMKV MEDICAL COLLEGE AND HOSPITAL, SALEM among 500 patients attending ENT OPD for complaints of tinnitus for a period of 2 years. Data entry and analysis: Data collected was entered in Microsoft excel and analyzed using SPSS version 20.0.Qualitative variables were expressed in percentage and Quantitative variables were expressed in mean and standard deviation.
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