Association between diabetes mellitus and hearing impairment in American and Korean populations

作者：Moon Shinje^*; Park Jung Hwan; Yu Jae Myung; Choi Moon Ki; Yoo Hyung Joon^*

来源：Journal of Diabetes and Its Complications, 2018, 32(7): 630-634.

DOI：10.1016/j.jdiacomp.2018.04.004

• Diabetes mellitus
• Hearing impairment
• National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey
• NHANES
• Complication

Aims: The aim of this study was to evaluate ethnic- and sex-specific associations between DM and hearing impairment. Methods: For this cross-sectional study using National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey in the U.S. and Korea, the total number of eligible participants included was 7081 in the U.S. and 15,704 in Korea. Hearing impairment was defined as a pure tone threshold level >= 25 dB. Multivariate logistic regression analysis was conducted, adjusting for age, sex, race/ethnicity, socioeconomic status, body mass index, noise exposure, smoking, hypertension, and dyslipidemia.
Results: The association between DM and hearing impairment was found to be sex-specific. The multivariate adjusted ORs of high-frequency impairment were 0.843 (95% CI, 0.524-1.356) in American men, and 1.073 (95% CI, 0.835-1.379) in Korean men, while the ORs in women from U.S. and Korea were 1.911 (95% CI, 1.244-2.935) and 1.421 (95% CI, 1.103-1.830), respectively. A subgroup analysis of each race/ethnicity among the U.S. adults showed similar results. In contrast to high-frequency impairment, there was no significant association between low-frequency impairment and DM in both men and women.
Conclusion: Our results suggest that DM is associated with hearing impairment in only women, irrespective of race/ethnicity groups.

• 出版日期2018-7