title: Auditory brainstem response (ABR) latency: relative importance of age, sex and sensorineural hearing-loss using a mathematical model of the audiogram.
abstract: Influences of age, sex and audiogram on ABR latencies have been studied. Using a mathematical model of audiogram, the analysis of data finds a relative importance of age, sex and audiogram similar to previous studies. Audiogram slope was correlated only with the latencies of waves I and V, and multiple regression analyses indicate the slope effect is relatively weak compared to that of the other parameters. Using a mathematical model of audiogram did not improve the ABR variance across subjects, underscoring the need to discover other relevant variables to explain ABR latency.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire de Physiologie Sensorielle, URA CNRS 1447 Hôpital Edouard Herriot, Lyon, France.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Collet
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Berger-Vachon
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Desreux
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Morgon
mesh_terms: D000161:Acoustic Stimulation; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D001299:Audiometry / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D001309:Auditory Threshold; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004432:Ear, Middle / Q000503:physiopathology; D016057:Evoked Potentials, Auditory, Brain Stem; D005260:Female; D006319:Hearing Loss, Sensorineural / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D012737:Sex Factors