Subclinical Auditory Neural Deficits in Patients With Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Diabetes mellitus (DM) is associated with a variety of sensory complications. Very little attention has been given to auditory neuropathic complications in DM. The aim of this study was to determine whether type 1 DM (T1DM) affects neural coding of the rapid temporal fluctuations of sounds, and how any deficits may impact on behavioral performance.

Design

Participants were 30 young normal-hearing T1DM patients, and 30 age-, sex-, and audiogram-matched healthy controls. Measurements included electrophysiological measures of auditory nerve and brainstem function using the click-evoked auditory brainstem response, and of brainstem neural temporal coding using the sustained frequency-following response (FFR); behavioral tests of temporal coding (interaural phase diffe

SUBMITTER: AlJasser A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7664709 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May/Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature