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Otoacoustic detection of risk of early hearing loss in ears with normal audiograms: a 3-year follow-up study.

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INTRODUCTION:Distortion product otoacoustic emissions (DPOAEs) are known to represent the contractile amplifier function of cochlear outer hair cells. It is known that low or absent DPOAEs are associated with hearing loss on audiograms. However, low DPOAEs can also be found associated with normal audiograms. It is unknown whether low DPOAEs in normal hearing ears are risk markers for subsequent early hearing loss when subjects are exposed to noise. MATERIALS AND METHODS:A 3-year follow-up study was carried out on a population of pilots aged 20-40 years (n=521). Data collection consisted of tonal audiograms, DPOAEs measurements with a calculation of an index of abnormality (the IaDPOAE). Of the 521 pilots enrolled, 350 (67%) had follow-up data 3 years later. In pilots with normal audiograms (n=219, all frequencies=10dB HL), we observed the occurrence of hearing threshold shifts after 3 years depending on whether the IaDPOAE was initially high (group 1) or low (group 2). We used this index to test the hypothesis that reduced DPOAEs levels are potential ear vulnerability biomarkers in apparent normal hearing ears. After a 3-year follow-up, the initial IaDPOAE in normal hearing subjects was correlated with final noise-induced hearing threshold shifts at high frequencies (p<0.01). The occurrence of abnormal audiograms was significantly higher in group 1 compared to group 2 (p=0.003). In group 1, 13% of audiograms were found with at least one frequency 25dB HL compared to 3% of audiograms in group 2. In both groups, impairments occurred at high frequencies and hearing in the 4kHz frequency range was significantly more impaired in group 1 (p=0.035). Group 1 was associated with a relative risk of 2.29 (95% CI 1.26-4.16, p=0.005) of sustaining early hearing loss. There was no significant differences between groups for age and noise exposure. DISCUSSION:In adults with a normal audiogram, ear vulnerability to noise could be elicited by the use of objective DPOAE measurements. A high IaDPOAE that corresponded to reduced DPOAE levels constitutes a risk for early hearing loss. This study emphasised the interest of DPOAE measurements in public health and occupational noise prevention policies. The IaDPOAE calculation may also be interesting for clinicians because no DPOAE index of abnormality is currently available.

journal_name

Hear Res

journal_title

Hearing research

authors

Job A,Raynal M,Kossowski M,Studler M,Ghernaouti C,Baffioni-Venturi A,Roux A,Darolles C,Guelorget A

doi

10.1016/j.heares.2009.02.008

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2009-05-01 00:00:00

pages

10-6

issue

1-2

eissn

0378-5955

issn

1878-5891

pii

S0378-5955(09)00033-1

journal_volume

251

pub_type

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Otoacoustic detection of risk of early hearing loss in ears with normal audiograms: a 3-year follow-up study.