Hearing Loss and Osteoporosis

Kanuni Sultan Suleyman Training and Research Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Hearing Loss; Osteoporosis, Postmenopausal

Treatments: Other: Audiological profiling and bone mineral densitometry measurement

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03895333

2019.01.01

Details and patient eligibility

About

To compare the audiological profiles in postmenopausal women with and without osteoporosis and to examine the pattern of hearing loss in osteoporotic patients. postmenopausal women will be separated as normal, osteopenic and osteoporotic according to bone mineral densitometry results. The evaluation of hearing test will be done in these groups and the results will be compared between the groups.

Enrollment: 160 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 45 to 60 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Between 45-60 years
• postmenopausal women

Exclusion criteria

• Women over 60 years old,
• acute or chronic otitis media,
• ear surgery,
• use of ototoxic drugs,
• congenital hearing loss,
• previous long-term steroid use,
• malignant or benign neoplasm of the brain,
• Patients with a history of exposure to noise were excluded from the study.

Trial design

160 participants in 2 patient groups

study group

Description:

women with hearing loss and osteoporosis will develop the study group.

Treatment:

Other: Audiological profiling and bone mineral densitometry measurement

control group

Description:

women who have hearing loss but have no osteoporosis will constitute the control group.

Treatment:

Other: Audiological profiling and bone mineral densitometry measurement