High-frequency hearing threshold in adult women with multiple sclerosis.
Our objective was to determine the high-frequency hearing thresholds of women with multiple sclerosis (MS) and to investigate the presence of side dominance for high-frequency perception. We submitted 19 affected and 106 nonaffected women (controls) to high-frequency audiometry and classified them in subgroups according to their age (30-40, 40-50, and 50-60 years). We analyzed data through selected statistical tests. We could detect no consistent effect of side dominance and observed a general increase in the hearing sensitivity for high frequencies in MS patients. We concluded that high-frequency sounds seemed to be detected more easily by MS patients than by controls.
Zeigelboim
Bianca S
BS
Department of Audiology, Universidade Tuiuti do Paraná, Curitiba. bianca.zeigelboim@utp.br
Arruda
Walter O
WO
Iório
Maria Cecília M
MC
Jurkiewicz
Ari L
AL
Martins-Bassetto
Jackeline
J
Klagenberg
Karlin F
KF
Mangabeira-Albernaz
Pedro L
PL
D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D001301:Audiometry, Pure-Tone; D001309:Auditory Threshold / Q000502:physiology*; D004292:Dominance, Cerebral / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D006316:Hearing Loss, High-Frequency / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009103:Multiple Sclerosis / Q000503:physiopathology*; D010898:Pitch Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D012016:Reference Values; D013018:Sound Spectrography