Journal of Contemporary Medicine (Mar 2023)

Is there a relation between sleep apnea, tinnitus, and hearing Loss?

  • Haci Hüseyin Dere,
  • Prof.dr. Kürşat Murat Özcan,
  • Aykut İkincioğulları,
  • Mustafa Çolak,
  • Ali Rıza Yağmur,
  • Fatma Cemre Sazak Kundi,
  • Mehmet Ali Çetin,
  • Serpil Alluşoğlu,
  • Nurcan Yurtsever Kum

DOI
https://doi.org/10.16899/jcm.1246971
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 2
pp. 288 – 293

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Abstract Background Chronic hypoxia may lead to auditory dysfunction in patients with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), and this dysfunction may worsen OSA, creating a vicious circle. The aim of this study was to investigate tinnitus and hearing loss in OSA patients. Methods A total of 147 patients were included in the study. After polysomnography (PSG), the patients with an apnea-hypopnea index (AHI) ≥ 5 were included in OSA group, and the ones with an AHI

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