Study of the effect of mobile phones on hearing
| Autor: | Sanjay Kumar, Karumuthil Swaroop, Naiya Rao, Deepak V. Chauhan, Anshul Bansal, Pushkar Khare |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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medicine.medical_specialty Absolute threshold of hearing medicine.diagnostic_test Cross-sectional study business.industry Tympanometry Audiology Mobile phone Mobile phone radiation and health otorhinolaryngologic diseases medicine medicine.symptom Who classification business Tinnitus |
| Zdroj: | International Journal of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery. 7:520 |
| ISSN: | 2454-5937 2454-5929 |
| DOI: | 10.18203/issn.2454-5929.ijohns20210688 |
| Popis: | Background: The effect of mobile phone radiation on human health is the subject of recent interest and study as a result of the enormous increase in mobile phone usage throughout the world. The present study was designed with an objective to study the effect of mobile phones on hearing.Methods: This cross sectional study involved cases in the age group of 18 to 45 years attending the out-patient department of ENT at Chhatrapati Shivaji Subharti hospital, Meerut. A total of 85 patients (mobile phone users) were taken for the study October 2018 to July 2020. Subjects with usage of mobile phones (smart phones) for a minimum of 2 hours a day and a minimum of 1 year duration (with or without ear phones), normal healthy individuals with no systemic disease, normal tympanic membrane with no prior external, middle/inner ear disease or discharge or trauma and subjects with type a tympanogram (on tympanometry) were included in the study. Degree of deafness was graded according to WHO classification, 1980Results: Statistically significant p value was observed (Conclusions: The present study shows an increase in the hearing threshold of the ear exposed to the prolonged use of mobile phones. |
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