Prevalencia de hipoacusia en adultos jóvenes en el servicio de otorrinolaringología del Hospital de Especialidades Teodoro Maldonado Carbo entre enero de 2021 y enero de 2023.

Abstract

Hearing loss is a problem that troubles a great proportion of the global population. According to the grading scale established by the Global Burden of Disease expert panel, patients with a Pure Tone Audiometry equal or greater than 20.0 dB are included as patients who have hearing loss. The following study aims to study the prevalence of hearing loss in the department of Otolaryngology of the Hospital de Especialidades Teodoro Maldonado Carbo (HETMC) between January 2021 and January 2023. The authors studied the prevalence according to sex, age, hearing loss grade, hearing loss laterality, hearing loss type and PTA. The authors included patients who were between 18 and 50 years old, were studied in this hospital and had a hearing loss diagnosis. Patients with complete hearing loss, without a confirmatory audiometry, who were not studied again for at least a year after diagnosis and patients with an audiometry not suggestive of hearing loss were excluded. 179 patients checked out all criteria. Of all the patients attended by this department between these dates, only 1,21% follow all criteria. Neurosensory and mild hearing loss were the most prevalent. Most of the patients were between 40 and 50 years old, had bilateral hearing loss and were male. A mild, non-significant, negative correlation between age and PTA was found. This goes against other similar studies.