Sudden deafness complicated with diabetes mellitus, hyperlipidemia and hypertension

Abstract

Eighty-six patients with sudden deafness treated from January1989to December1991in Dokkyo University School of Medicine were reviewed retrospectively. The age, audiogram pattern, presenceof dizziness and the duration time to hearing fixation were analyzed. The complications, such asdiabetes mellitus, hyperlipidemia and hypertension were found in 31patients and no complication in55patients. There were8patients with diabetes mellitus, 8patients with hyperlipidemia and21patients with hypertension. Among them, 5 patients had two or more complications. The prognosisof the patients with complications was worse, and dizziness was more frequently found than theothers. The patients with diabetes mellitus showed a tendency to have a high tone deafness and allof them had a sensorineural hearing loss in the other side.