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Abstract

Thyroid hormone regulates the metabolism of all the cells of human body. The role of thyroid hormone is very essential in bodily growth and maturation of the nervous system. If thyroid gland decreases its secretion, it can affect any system of the body. The decreased from thyroid gland affects the auditory system. Thyroid hormone is very essential for not only the development but also functioning of cochlea. In addition to other systems, the auditory system is very sensitive to thyroid hormone. Hypothyroidism causes mild to severe degree of hearing loss leading to auditory dysfunction. The objectives of the study was to measure the prevalence of hearing impairment among hypothyroid patients and to assess the hearing loss via tests among these patients. Thyroid disorder constitutes a spectrum of disease that occurs due to increase or decrease in thyroid hormones. Among these, the two important categories are due to thyroid over activity which is called as hyperthyroidism and thyroid lower activity which is called as hypothyroidism. Impairment with mild degree and it affects cochlea. Strict maintenance of thyroid hormone levels within normal range would help in reducing the cochlear damage, as evident from present study that longer the duration of hypothyroidism more is the proportion of hearing impairment.

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Thyroid disorder thyroid gland sensorineural hearing loss hypothyroidism and auditory system

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Arulanantham Zechariah Jebakumar. (2020). A Prospective Study on Hearing Loss in Hypothyroidism. International Journal of Novel Trends in Pharmaceutical Sciences, 10(2), 47-51. https://doi.org/10.26452/ijntps.v10i2.1262