Hearing Loss in Patients with Ankylosing Spondylitis: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

CONCLUSION: Patients with AS have higher odds of having HL over patients without AS. This population also presents with significantly impaired hearing thresholds across all conventional and extended pure tone frequencies. This may manifest as slight to moderate hearing loss. Results of this systematic review might justify increased attention audiologic manifestations of patients with AS. PMID: 32414955 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Journal of Rheumatology - Category: Rheumatology Tags: J Rheumatol Source Type: research