Gender differences in audio-vestibular disorders.
In the last years, the attention to the role of gender in physiopathology and pharmacology of diseases in several medical disciplines is rising; however, the data on the relationship between gender and audio-vestibular disorders are still inconclusive and sometimes confusing. With this letter to the editor, we would like to review the role of gender in audio-vestibular disorders. Literature data show that anatomic variances of the inner ear do exist in men and women and that the different physiology and/or hormonal influence between genders could produce different clinical outcome of routine audiological and vestibular tests. Beyond the epidemiological gender-related differences, the clinical data suggest that the gender has a potential role as an etiopathogenetic factor in audio-vestibular disorders and it is probably responsible for the different clinical features observed between male and female subjects.
['Corazzi|Virginia|V|', 'Ciorba|Andrea|A|https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3455-2295', 'Skarżyński|Piotr Henryk|PH|', 'Skarżyńska|Magdalena B|MB|', 'Bianchini|Chiara|C|', 'Stomeo|Francesco|F|', 'Bellini|Tiziana|T|', 'Pelucchi|Stefano|S|', 'Hatzopoulos|Stavros|S|']
D001306:Auditory Pathways D007758:Ear, Inner D005260:Female D006311:Hearing Disorders D006319:Hearing Loss, Sensorineural D006728:Hormones D006801:Humans D008297:Male D012727:Sex Characteristics D012737:Sex Factors D015837:Vestibular Diseases
gender gender differences inner ear audiology cochlea sensorineural hearing loss sex vestibule