Clinical significance of @entity432 in XXXX .

@entity1 @entity101 @entity6 @entity1274 @entity432
OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS: To investigate the clinical significance of @entity432 in the development and prognosis of @entity1274 (SSNHL). STUDY DESIGN: A prospective case-control study. METHODS: Fifty-four adult @entity1 with idiopathic SSNHL and 54 age- and sex-matched controls were evaluated between January 2014 and May 2015. Arterial stiffness was assessed from brachial-ankle pulse wave velocity (baPWV), and other cardiovascular markers including blood pressure, body mass index, and lipid profiles were determined. The SSNHL @entity1 were divided into two groups, recovery and nonrecovery, according to hearing recovery. RESULTS: BaPWV was higher in the SSNHL group than in the control group (P = .036), whereas comorbidity, anthropometric characteristics, blood pressure, and lipid profiles were similar. In addition, baPWV was correlated with initial hearing threshold, which indicated the severity of SSNHL (r = 0.38, P = .004). Univariate analysis showed that age, initial hearing threshold, and baPWV were higher in the nonrecovery group than the recovery group (P = .001, P = .004, and P = .007, respectively). There was also a significantly higher prevalence of a history of @entity101 or @entity6 in the nonrecovery group than in the recovery group. However, multivariate analysis showed that only the initial hearing threshold was associated with hearing recovery (P = .029). CONCLUSIONS: Higher baPWV, representative of @entity432 , was associated with development and severity of SSNHL, which supports the hypothesis of a vascular etiology for this disease. Arterial stiffness had limited value in predicting the prognosis of SSNHL. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE: 3b. Laryngoscope, 2016.
