Hearing loss in patients with diabetic retinopathy.
With use of standard audiometric procedures, the hearing thresholds of patients with known diabetic retinopathy did not differ significantly from those of a control population group. However, use of a more subtle psychoacoustic tool--a filtered speech task--showed a definite difference in hearing acuity between the two groups.
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001301:Audiometry, Pure-Tone; D003930:Diabetic Retinopathy / Q000150:complications*; D005260:Female; D034381:Hearing Loss / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*; D006317:Hearing Loss, Noise-Induced / Q000209:etiology; D006320:Hearing Tests; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged