Perda auditiva e hipertensão: achados em um grupo de idosos

As the age advances, the number of chronic diseases also grows, the systemic arterial hypertension (SAH) and hearing loss having a significant prevalence in aged people. OBJECTIVE: To compare and analyze anamnesis and threshold tonal audiometry results in both hypertensive and non-hypertensive patients. STUDY DESIGN: Transversal contemporany cohort study. MATERIAL AND METHOD: This study has been conducted at UNIFESP in the period from March to November 2003. Seventy people in the age group from 60 to 92 - 15 male and 54 female - were evaluated through anamnesis and threshold tonal audiometry. RESULTS: As to audiology findings of groups studied, a difference can be noted regarding "ramp-typed" audiometric configuration and buzz claim, both occurring most frequently in non-hypertensive aged people. CONCLUSION: Hypertensive aged people did not present a higher hearing deficit, the degree of hearing loss being similar in both groups. Prevailing audiometric configuration in hypertensive group was that of "full-type", while the non-hypertensive group presented a "ramp-typed" configuration. As to audiologic claims, the non-hypertensive group presented an increased occurrence of "buzz" claim.