Blood viscosity and hearing levels in the Caerphilly Collaborative Heart Disease Study

Gatehouse, S., Gallacher, John Edward ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2394-5299, Lowe, G. D. O., Yarnell, J. W. G., Hutton, R. D. and Ising, I. 1989. Blood viscosity and hearing levels in the Caerphilly Collaborative Heart Disease Study. Archives of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery 115 (10) , pp. 1227-1230. 10.1001/archotol.1989.01860340081022

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Abstract

Data from 342 men who are participants in the Caerphilly Collaborative Heart Disease Study were used to replicate a previous report of a significant relationship between measures of whole-blood viscosity and hearing levels in persons with sensorineural hearing impairment. In the unselected data, there were significant relationships between measures of whole-blood viscosity at high shear rates and hearing threshold levels at 2000 and 4000 Hz, even after accounting for the effects of age and socioeconomic group. In a subset of the data containing 124 persons selected on the basis of likely sensorineural hearing impairment, there were significant relationships between whole-blood viscosity and hearing level at all frequencies, with stronger effects at the higher frequencies. The data support the contention of a potentially important relationship between whole-blood viscosity and sensorineural hearing impairment.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Medicine Systems Immunity Research Institute (SIURI)
Subjects:	R Medicine > R Medicine (General)
Publisher:	American Medical Association
ISSN:	0886-4470
Last Modified:	27 Oct 2022 10:16
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/69550

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