Association between Hearing Loss and Saccular Dysfunction in Older Individuals

Otology and Neurotology

Volumn 33, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1586-1592

  Zuniga, Maria Geraldine ^a   Dinkes, Roni E ^a   Davalos Bichara, Marcela ^a   Carey, John P ^a   Schubert, Michael C ^a   King, W Michael ^b   Walston, Jeremy ^a   Agrawal, Yuri ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Hearing loss; Noise exposure; Otolith; Vestibular evoked myogenic potential

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BONE CONDUCTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MALE; NOISE INJURY; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; RISK FACTOR; SEMICIRCULAR CANAL; SOCIOECONOMICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VESTIBULAR DISORDER; VESTIBULAR EVOKED MYOGENIC POTENTIAL; VESTIBULAR TEST; VESTIBULE; VISUAL ACUITY;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; BONE CONDUCTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS; HEARING LOSS, NOISE-INDUCED; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; RISK FACTORS; SACCULE AND UTRICLE; SEMICIRCULAR CANALS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VESTIBULAR DISEASES; VESTIBULAR EVOKED MYOGENIC POTENTIALS; VESTIBULAR FUNCTION TESTS; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 84870314134     PISSN: 15317129     EISSN: 15374505     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MAO.0b013e31826bedbc     Document Type: Article

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