ΕΡΕΥΝΑ ΤΗΣ ΠΡΕΣΒΥΑΚΟΥΣΙΑΣ ΣΤΗΝ ΗΠΕΙΡΟ

A POPULATION OF 873 SUBJECTS WAS (CLINICALLY) EXAMINED AND TESTED IN THE AUDIOMETRIC LABORATORY OF OUR CLINIC. WE USED STRICT CRITERIA FOR SELECTION AND EXCLUDED THOSE SUBJECTS SUFFERING FORM CONGENITAL OR OTHER ORGANIC EAR DISEASES. THEREMAINING 777 SUBJECTS, 460 MALES AND 317 FEMALES WERE INCLUDED IN OUR STUDY. THEY WERE DIVIDED IN SIX AGE GROUPS FROM 21 TO 80 YEARS OLD AND THEIR AUDIOGRAMS WERE CLASSIFIED ACCORDING TO THE FOUR TYPES OF PRESYACUSIS. WE STUDIED THE INCIDIED OF PRESBYACUSIS IN FREQUENCIES SPECTRUM 0,5,1,2,4 AND 8 KH2 FOR EACH GROUP AND SEX SEPARATELY. STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF OUR DATA SHOWED THE FOLLOWING RESULTS: 1. OLDER AGES IN BOTH SEXES WERE ACCOMPANIED BY A GREAT DEGREE OF HEARING LOSS AT HIGH FREQUENCIES (2 2. A SEX DIFFERENCE OF ONE DECADE WAS OBSERVED INHEARING DECREASE FOR AGES GREATER THAN 50 YEARS AT HIGH FREQUENCIES (2,4 AND 8KH2), WHERE THE MALE POPULATION SHOWED A SIGNIFICANTLY POORER HEARING 3. AT FREQUENCIES LOWER THAN 2000 HZ IN YOUNGER AGES THERE WAS NOT ANY SIGNIFICANT SEX DIFFERENCE, BUT A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF MALES (25% EQUAL TO OR GREATER THAN 31 YEARS OLD SHOWED A MODERATE OR SEVERE HEARING LOSS AT HIGH FREQUENCIES (4 AND 8 KH2) OF PRESBYACUSIS, WE FOUND THAT THE MOST OF THEM BELONG TO THE TYPES I AND IV.

Grantor dc:publisher

University of Ioannina

Year dc:date

1988

Authors dc:creator

• Exarchakos, Georgios
• Εξαρχάκος, Γιώργος

• Ιατρική και Επιστήμες Υγείας
• Κλινική Ιατρική
• Επιστήμες Υγείας
• Medical and Health Sciences
• Clinical Medicine
• Health Sciences

Language dc:language

gre

Identifier

10.12681/eadd/0737

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:10442/0737