Vascular-Metabolic Risk Factors and Psychological Stress in Patients with Chronic Tinnitus.

ABSTRACT: Little is known about molecular correlates of chronic tinnitus. We examined interrelationships between vascular-metabolic risk factors, perceived stress, and other routine blood values in patients with chronic tinnitus. Two-hundred patients (51% female) were screened for 49 blood parameters pertaining to vascular-metabolic risk, immune function, and redox processes. They further completed perceived stress- and tinnitus-related distress questionnaires. Following descriptive analyses, gender-specific sets of age- and tinnitus-severity-adjusted regression models investigated associations between perceived stress and blood parameters. Patients reported mildly elevated levels of perceived stress. Elevated levels of total cholesterol (65% and 61% of female and male patients, respectively), non-H

SUBMITTER: Boecking B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9183085 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature