Association between risk factors of cardiovascular disease and sensory disorders
Description: Cardiovascular risk factors may be associated with impairment of sensory organs, because blood supply of the organs depends on small vessels. To test our hypothesis, we conducted a study. We used anonymous data of annual health check-up of 2 companies in Japan. We examined the association between dipstick proteinuria and prevalence and incidence of hearing impairment. We also examined the association between hypertension and prevalence of hearing impairment. We found a positive association between proteinuria and prevalence of hearing impairment. For the association between proteinuria and incidence of hearing impairment, subjects with proteinuria at baseline showed higher risk of incidence of hearing impairment, compared with subjects without it. For hypertension, the prevalence of hypertensive subjects was higher than normotensive subjects. We found associations between cardiovascular risk factors and hearing impairment. Further studies will be necessary to confirm these findings.
Amount: ¥3,640,000
Funding type: fellowship
Funder scheme: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
Start date: 2017-04-01
End date: 2020-03-31
Investigator: Mitsumasa Umesawa
Institution: Dokkyo Medical University
Funded outputs count: 3
Funder award ID: 17K18051
OpenAlex ID: G176998981