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- Title
Impact of Lipid-Inflammatory-Oxidative Metabolism on Auditory Skills after Hearing Aid Fitting in the Elderly.
- Authors
Lessa, alexandre Hundertmarck; Cruz, Ivana Beatrice Mânica da; Manica-Cattani, Maria Fernanda; Moresco, Rafael Noal; Duarte, Marta Maria Medeiros Frescura; Costa, Maristela Julio
- Abstract
This study aimed to assess whether lipid-inflammatory-oxidative metabolism influences auditory processing skills, and whether they function in changing auditory performance after hearing aid fitting in the elderly. Twelve subjects with bilateral hearing loss were submitted to blood tests (to check their lipid-inflammatory-oxidative metabolism) and auditory processing skill tests. After 3 months of using the hearing aids, their auditory skills were re-evaluated and the data were correlated statistically. Oxidative stress levels mainly showed some impact on auditory temporal processing; such a relation and others should best be examined in further studies with larger populations.
- Subjects
HEARING disorders; HEARING aids; OXIDATIVE stress; AUDITORY perception testing; DEAFNESS; GENETIC disorders; LIPID metabolism disorders; SPEECH perception
- Publication
Audiology & Neurotology, 2017, Vol 22, Issue 3, p146
- ISSN
1420-3030
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1159/000461570