Risk of hearing loss in patients with fibromyalgia: A nationwide population-based retrospective cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Our objectives are to examine whether patients with fibromyalgia (FM) present an increased risk of hearing loss (HL) compared with those without FM and to explore the relationship between comorbidities/drugs and development of HL in patients with FM. Furthermore, we investigated the incidence rate of different types of HL and the joint effects for HL with FM and comorbidities.

Methods

This population-based retrospective cohort study included patients with new-onset FM from 2000 to 2002 (the FM group) and age- and sex-matched randomized patients without FM (the non-FM group) from Taiwan's National Health Insurance Research Database. Patients were followed up from baseline (3 months after FM diagnosis) until death, withdrawal, HL development, or December 31, 2013. T

SUBMITTER: Le TP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7470261 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature