THE COMPARISM BETWEEN THE HEARING THRESHOLDS OF TYPE 1 AND TYPE 2 DIABETES   MELLITUS PATIENTS IN A DEVELOPING COUNTRY.

Jones Ndubuisi Nwosu; Ethel Nkechi Chime; Babatunde Ishola Omotowo

Volume : VII, Issue : VIII, August - 2017

THE COMPARISM BETWEEN THE HEARING THRESHOLDS OF TYPE 1 AND TYPE 2 DIABETES MELLITUS PATIENTS IN A DEVELOPING COUNTRY.

Jones Ndubuisi Nwosu, Ethel Nkechi Chime, Babatunde Ishola Omotowo

Abstract :

Introduction

The two principal forms of diabetes mellitus – Type 1 (Insulin – dependent diabetes mellitus) and Type 2 (Non – insulin – dependent diabetes mellitus) affect heå among others, leading to progressive sensorineural heå loss mostly at high frequencies.

Objectives

The study was aimed to compare the heå thresholds of Type 1 diabetes mellitus patients with that of Type 2 diabetes mellitus patients.

Patients and methods

It was a prospective study conducted over a period of eighteen months on adult black Africans of Nigerian origin with diabetes mellitus in the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital (UNTH), Ituku/Ozalla Enugu, Nigeria.

Results

One hundred and twenty diabetes mellitus patients were studied consisting of 90 and 30 Type 2 and Type 1 respectively. Their ages averaged 37.30±7.53. There were equal number of males and females in the study. 12.5% of the patients studied had sensorineural heå loss, with Type 1 diabetes mellitus patient showing overall better heå.

Conclusion

It was concluded that Type 1 diabetes mellitus patients had better heå thresholds than Type 2, but more studies are needed to clearly establish this.