Hearing Impairment in Senile Dementia of Alzhaimer's Type
WANG Ning-yu
YANG Hui-jie
SU Jing-fei
KONG Feng
ZHANG Ming-xia
DONG Hui-qing
ZHANG Xin-qing
JIA Jian-ping
HAN De-min
摘要：Objectives To evaluate peripheral auditory dysfunction in senile dementia of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and its relationship with cognitive dysfunction. Methods Pure tone thresholds,word recognition scores (WRS), acoustic immittance and auditory brain-stem responses (ABR) were tested to evaluate the auditory function in 43 AD patients and 50 normal subjects. The test reliability in these subjects was examined before the test results were evaluated for their correlation with the Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE) score. Results There were no statistically significant differences in peripheral auditory functions between the two ears in the tested subjects or between the two groups when the auditometric results of the right ear were compared(P ＞ 0.05 ).Also, there were no statistically significant differences between the two groups when audiometric test reliability,acoustic impedance and ABR results were compared (P ＞ 0.05 ). Conclutions The pure tone audiometric threshold and WRS in AD patients are similar to those in comparable non-AD senile subjects. Peripheral auditory dysfunction is not related to cognitive dysfunction.
机标关键词：Mini Mental State Examinationsenile dementiatest results
分类号：R76(耳鼻咽喉科学)
资助基金：Beijing Brain Aging Key Laboratory Foundation(951890600)
论文发表日期：2007-01-01
在线出版日期：2025-08-15（本平台首次上网日期，不代表文献的发表时间）
页数：4( 14-17 )
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