%0 Journal Article
%T Caracteriza£¿£¿o do zumbido em idosos e de poss¨ªveis transtornos relacionados
%A Ferreira
%A Lidiane Maria de Brito Macedo
%A Ramos J¨²nior
%A Alberto Novaes
%A Mendes
%A Eveline Pereira
%J Revista Brasileira de Otorrinolaringologia
%D 2009
%I Scientific Electronic Library Online
%R 10.1590/S0034-72992009000200015
%X population aging it is a current reality in brazil and tinnitus appears as a very prevalent symptom, having a high impact on the quality of life of elderly patients. aim: to evaluate and to characterize tinnitus in this group. materials and methods: a research questionnaire randomly given to 100 elderly patients in a tertiary hospital, asking about tinnitus characteristics, its impact on the life of the patient, and personal medical history. results: 61% of the participants were female, average age average was 69.53 years. the results associated with tinnitus features were: no-pulsatile 76%, continuous 54%, bilateral 57%, recent 62% and alone 83%;32,5% had emotional disorders, 31.8% had sleep disorders, 22.5% had difficulties concentration and 13.2% had social problems; 39% classified their tinnitus in moderate; 35% had intense tinnitus and 26% considered it a mild one: as to comorbidities: relation with neurotology symptoms and hypertension; as for associations with audiometry findings: descending, sensorineural and symmetrical curves prevailed. conclusions: tinnitus has a relevant impact on the lives of the elderly; there was no correlation between the level of hearing loss and the level of patient dissatisfaction caused by tinnitus; and presbycusis was the most common finding in the audiometric tests.
%K elderly
%K quality of life
%K tinnitus.
%U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0034-72992009000200015&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en