Among older adults, metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver illness (MASLD) is related to elevated danger for sudden sensorineural listening to loss (SSNHL), in accordance with a review published within the June difficulty of Laryngoscope: Investigative Otolaryngology.
Eun Seok Kang, M.D., from the Korea University College of Medicine in Seoul, and colleagues carried out a population-based cohort study utilizing the Korean National Health Insurance Service-Senior cohort involving 189,623 individuals aged 65 years or older who had been categorized as non-SLD or MASLD. The danger for SSNHL and Meniere illness was examined.
The researchers discovered that in contrast with the non-SLD group, individuals with MASLD had increased metabolic dysfunction markers, together with elevated physique mass index, waist circumference, and blood stress. There had been 3,803 SSNHL occasions within the MASLD group throughout 9 years of follow-up, with an incidence fee of two.44 per 1,000 person-years. MASLD was related to a considerably elevated danger for SSNHL after inverse chance of remedy weighting (adjusted hazard ratio, 1.05; subdistribution hazard ratio, 1.06).
“This discovering serves as an necessary indicator that displays the affect of MASLD on illness development from a prognostic perspective, reasonably than merely inspecting the incidence of the illness itself,” the authors write.
More info:
Eun Seok Kang et al, Association of Metabolic Dysfunction?Associated Steatotic Liver Disease With Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss Among Older Adults, Laryngoscope Investigative Otolaryngology (2025). DOI: 10.1002/lio2.70156
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