Abnormal hearing patterns are not associated with endothelium-dependent vasodilation and carotid intima-media thickness: The Framingham Heart Study.

Sudhi TyagiDavid R FriedlandLisa ReinSergey S TarimaChristopher MuellerEmelia J BenjaminRamachandran S VasanNaomi M HamburgMichael E Widlansky

Published in: Vascular medicine (London, England) (2021)

Abnormal hearing patterns were not significantly associated with impaired brachial FMD and increased carotid IMT after adjusting for age and sex effects, which may reflect age and sex-related distributional differences based on hearing loss pattern.

Keyphrases

hearing loss
nitric oxide
optical coherence tomography
type diabetes
cardiovascular risk factors
metabolic syndrome