Sensorineural Hearing Loss in Old Age People

الملخص

Objectives: this study was undertaken in order to show the effect of age on the auditory system. Design: case –control study. Setting: Al-Jamhory teaching Hospital-Advisory clinic department-hearing and speech unit in Mosul during the period from first of January till the end of June 2011 A.C. Subjects and methods: twenty - four subjects aging between (18-25) years(group1) and one hundred subjects aging between (45-75) years (group 2) were subjected to a pure tone audiometric assessment. The resulting data was statistically analyzed. Results: The auditory threshold in old age subjects was higher in all the frequencies suggestive of sensorineural hearing loss. Conclusions: old age subjects have a sensorineural hearing loss when evaluated with a pure tone audiometer in all frequencies comparing with the young age subjects