The Relationship Between Diabetes, Its Neurological and Optical Complications, and Hearing Loss.
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 发起方
- 入组人数
- 87
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- The Demographic characteristics were classified into four groups: Gender, Financial status, Educational level, and Profession.
研究概览
简要总结
Observation study, shows the relation between diabetes, its neurological and optical complication and hearing loss, by asking participants questions about there age,BMI,job,the history of any cataract,diabetes retinopathy or heart attack,hypertension,swollen or tingling legs and take there consent to measure the hearing impairment.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Observational
- 观察模型
- Other
- 时间视角
- Cross Sectional
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 18 Years 至 70 Years（Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •Diabetics who signed consent for the study.
- •Diabetics who have filled out the form completely.
- •Diabetics who have undergone a pure tone hearing screening test .
排除标准
- •Patients with glandular disease causing hearing loss.
- •Patients with traumatic ear injury.
- •Patients who have recently had a middle or inner ear infection.
- •History of acoustic neuroma.
- •Patients are under active treatment with medications that have a toxic effect on the auditory cells.
- •Patients with diabetic foot.
- •The patient's occupation or residence is within a noisy environment.
结局指标
主要结局
The Demographic characteristics were classified into four groups: Gender, Financial status, Educational level, and Profession.
时间窗: The study took 6 months to finish it with hard work, it was hard to reach our participants so it tooks 2 weeks from us for each participant to finish our survey
Gender was either male or female. Income was divided into three categories: Low Income (those who were unable to provide even the basics for themselves), Fair Income (basics and some additional expenses), and High Income. Professions were divided into four types: Retired, Housewife, Worker and Student. Educational degree was categorized as Lower than High School, High School, or Higher than High School. Hypertension was measured and considered higher than normal when exceeded 140/90 mmHg. Both height and weight were measured to calculate the BMI of each subject. Weight was measured in kilograms. Height was measured in meters. BMI that scored less than 25, between 25-30, 30 or more was considered, underweight normal, and obese respectively. "The number of patients diagnosed with diabetes who showed signs of hearing impairment at certain stages of their lives, and how this related to other neurological signs, is being investigated.
次要结局
未报告次要终点
研究者
Mohamad Zaid Mohamad Samer Ahmad Abdalla
Dr in Damascus university in general internal medicine
Syrian Private University