Langguth, Berthold and Bulla, Jan and Fischer, Beate and Baurecht, Hansjoerg and Schecklmann, Martin and Marcrum, Steven C. C. and Vielsmeier, Veronika (2023) Tinnitus Is Marginally Associated with Body Mass Index, Heart Rate and Arterial Blood Pressure: Results from a Large Clinical Sample. JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MEDICINE, 12 (9): 3321. ISSN , 2077-0383
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Introduction: This study aimed to explore whether body mass index (BMI), systolic blood pressure (RR syst), diastolic blood pressure (RR diast) or heart rate (HR) are associated with tinnitus status and/or severity. Methods: To that end, we evaluated the influence of tinnitus status and Tinnitus Handicap Inventory (THI) score on BMI, RR syst, RR diast and HR by comparing data from a large sample of patients presenting to a specialized tertiary referral clinic (N = 1066) with data from a population-based control group (N = 9885) by means of linear models. Results: Tinnitus patients had a significantly lower BMI and higher RR syst, RR diast and HR than non-tinnitus patients; however, the contribution of the case-control status to R-2 was very small (0.1%, 0.7%, 1.4% and 0.4%, respectively). BMI had little predictive power for the THI score (higher BMI scores were related to higher THI scores; R-2 = 0.5%) and neither RR syst, RR diast, nor HR showed a statistically significant association with THI. Discussion: Our findings suggest that HR, RR and BMI are at most marginally associated with tinnitus status and severity.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | PREVALENCE; HYPERTENSION; tinnitus; cardiovascular; metabolic; risk factor; arterial hypertension; vegetative; sympathic; parasympathic |
| Subjects: | 600 Technology > 610 Medical sciences Medicine |
| Divisions: | Medicine > Lehrstuhl für Hals-Nasen-Ohren-Heilkunde Medicine > Lehrstuhl für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie Medicine > Institut für Epidemiologie und Präventivmedizin |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 08 Mar 2024 13:53 |
| Last Modified: | 08 Mar 2024 13:54 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/59188 |
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