TY - JOUR
T1 - Association between sudden sensorineural hearing loss and anxiety disorder
T2 - a population-based study
AU - Chung, Shiu Dong
AU - Hung, Shih-Han
AU - Lin, Herng-Ching
AU - Sheu, Jau-Jiuan
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2014, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.
PY - 2015/10/24
Y1 - 2015/10/24
N2 - Anxiety disorder (AD) is commonly associated with a number of physical illnesses. No previous study has investigated the association between AD and sudden sensorineural hearing loss (SSNHL). In this study, we investigated the association between prior AD and SSNHL using a population-based dataset in Taiwan. Sampled subjects of this case–control study were retrieved from the Taiwan “Longitudinal Health Insurance Database”. We identified 3,522 patients who had a diagnosis of SSNHL as cases and 10,566 age- and gender-matched subjects without SSNHL as controls. A conditional logistic regression was used to calculate the odds ratio (OR) for having previously been diagnosed with AD between cases and controls. We found that of 14,088 patients, 13.4 % had a prior AD diagnosis, 17.8 and 11.9 % for the SSNHL group and controls, respectively. After adjusting for patient socioeconomic characteristics and comorbid medical disorders, SSNHL patients were more likely to have prior AD than the controls (OR 1.49, 95 % confidence interval (CI) 1.34–1.66, p
AB - Anxiety disorder (AD) is commonly associated with a number of physical illnesses. No previous study has investigated the association between AD and sudden sensorineural hearing loss (SSNHL). In this study, we investigated the association between prior AD and SSNHL using a population-based dataset in Taiwan. Sampled subjects of this case–control study were retrieved from the Taiwan “Longitudinal Health Insurance Database”. We identified 3,522 patients who had a diagnosis of SSNHL as cases and 10,566 age- and gender-matched subjects without SSNHL as controls. A conditional logistic regression was used to calculate the odds ratio (OR) for having previously been diagnosed with AD between cases and controls. We found that of 14,088 patients, 13.4 % had a prior AD diagnosis, 17.8 and 11.9 % for the SSNHL group and controls, respectively. After adjusting for patient socioeconomic characteristics and comorbid medical disorders, SSNHL patients were more likely to have prior AD than the controls (OR 1.49, 95 % confidence interval (CI) 1.34–1.66, p
KW - Anxiety disorder
KW - Sudden sensorineural hearing loss
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U2 - 10.1007/s00405-014-3235-8
DO - 10.1007/s00405-014-3235-8
M3 - Article
C2 - 25115314
AN - SCOPUS:84940182275
SN - 0937-4477
VL - 272
SP - 2673
EP - 2678
JO - European Archives of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology
JF - European Archives of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology
IS - 10
ER -