Auditory Temporal Processing Abilities in Patients with Diabetes Mellitus Type 1 and Type 2

Abir Omara, Department of Audio -vestibular medicine, Hearing and speech Institute, Cairo, Egypt
Sanaa Mahran, Department of Audio -vestibular medicine, Hearing and speech Institute, Cairo, Egypt
Heba Ramadan, Department of Internal medicine National Institute of diabetes and endocrinology, Cairo, EgyptFollow

Article Type

Original Study

Subject Area

Audiovestibular Mmedicine

Abstract

Introduction: Diabetes mellitus is most common chronic disease characteristic by carbohydrate metabolic disorder in which absolute or relative deficiency in insulin and various pathological changes in the body system. The central nervous system disorders is among system affected by toxic effect and hyperglycemia. Auditory temporal processing is one of the important abilities of the central nervous system which may be affected by diabetes. However, the extent and nature of the central manifestations are still unknown. Objective: The aim of this study was to compare auditory temporal processing in these patients (Diabetics type 1 and Type 2) with normal subjects through temporal auditory processing tests: auditory fusion test-revised (AFT) which investigate the temporal resolution and gap detection, as well as Pitch Pattern Test (PPT) and Duration Pattern Test (DPT) for testing temporal ordering and sequencing of tonal stimuli. Patients and method: This study was carried out on three groups of subjects including 20 subjects with diabetes Mellitus type II, 20 with diabetes Mellitus type 1 and 20 normal hearing subjects not suffering from diabetes. Anova-test was used to compare the mean of numerical values between normal and diabetic subjects and Pearson correlation coefficient test was used to check the correlation between age of patient and duration of diabetes on auditory temporal processing test. Results: Statistically significant difference was found between diabetes mellitus type 2 and the two other groups for all tests of temporal processing. Conclusion: Temporal resolution and temporal ordering is affected in individuals with diabetes mellitus type 2 compared with diabetes mellitus type 1 and control group, finding which is attributed to age and duration of diabetes in in these patients.

Keywords

Diabetes mellitus DM, auditory temporal processing, Auditory fusion test (AFT-R), PPT (pitch pattern test), Duration pattern test (DPT).

Recommended Citation

Omara, Abir; Mahran, Sanaa; and Ramadan, Heba (2023) "Auditory Temporal Processing Abilities in Patients with Diabetes Mellitus Type 1 and Type 2," Journal of Medicine in Scientific Research: Vol. 6: Iss. 3, Article 11.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.59299/2537-0928.1030