title: Cross-sectional study of differences in speech understanding between users and nonusers of estrogen replacement therapy.
abstract: The purpose of this study was to examine whether women who use estrogen replacement therapy (ERT) differ from women not using ERT on several measures of speech understanding. Participants (n = 38, 60 to 74 years) completed a battery of tests including pure-tone audiometry, the Dichotic Sentence Identification (DSI) test, a test of auditory-only and auditory-visual sentence recognition, and a measure of speech understanding in reverberation. In general, women who used ERT were better able to understand distorted speech than were nonusers of ERT.
authors.affiliation: Department of Communication Disorders, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003-0410, USA. khelfer@comdis.umass.edu
authors.forename: Karen S
authors.initials: KS
authors.lastname: Helfer
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000375:Aging / Q000187:drug effects; D001301:Audiometry, Pure-Tone / Q000379:methods; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D004007:Dichotic Listening Tests; D015914:Estrogen Replacement Therapy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D011304:Presbycusis / Q000209:etiology; D013067:Speech Perception / Q000187:drug effects