Risk factors associated with hearing loss in term neonates with hyperbilirubinaemia.
A study of 128 jaundiced term neonates showed that 28 (22 per cent) had hearing loss based on brain stem-evoked response. There was no significant difference in the percentage of neonates with hearing loss between those with peak serum bilirubin levels of less than 340 mumol/l (16 per cent) and those with hyperbilirubinaemia > 339 mumol/l (33 per cent) (P = 0.11). Logistic regression analysis showed that severe jaundice which required exchange transfusion and earlier age of onset of hyperbilirubinaemia were statistically significant risk factors associated with hearing loss (P = 0.038 and P = 0.012, respectively).
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D000367:Age Factors; D005072:Evoked Potentials, Auditory; D005078:Exchange Transfusion, Whole Blood; D005260:Female; D034381:Hearing Loss / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D006932:Hyperbilirubinemia / Q000150:complications* / Q000628:therapy; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D011446:Prospective Studies; D012044:Regression Analysis; D012307:Risk Factors