title: [Sudden deafness: stepwise regression analysis on the correlation factors with prognosis].
abstract: To further investigate the correlation factors of the prognosis and therapeutic efficiency of sudden deafness, 83 cases (91 ears) from 1993. 1 to 1996. 4 were studied with stepwise regression analysis. The results showed that the prognosis is correlate with the age, the hearing threshold levels of both speech and high frequencies, and the types of the audiometric curve, but not with the illness duration, sex, vertigo, ipsi or bilateral, recurrence, virus infection, cardiac or cerebral vascular diseases, and the medicine or the duration of the treatment. By comparing the results obtained from different statistical analysis, it was suggested that the unification of the criteria of the diagnosis and the therapeutic efficiency as well as the application of the multiple factors regression analysis are essential for the research on sudden deafness.
authors.affiliation: First Hospital, Beijing Medical University.
authors.forename: Z
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Gu
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Tong
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Sun
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D001309:Auditory Threshold; D004359:Drug Therapy, Combination; D005260:Female; D003639:Hearing Loss, Sudden / Q000188:drug therapy*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010208:Papaverine / Q000627:therapeutic use; D011379:Prognosis; D011719:Pyrazines / Q000627:therapeutic use; D012044:Regression Analysis; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D014665:Vasodilator Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use
chemical_list: D011719:Pyrazines; D014665:Vasodilator Agents; D010208:Papaverine; C017953:tetramethylpyrazine