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Risk of tinnitus in patients with sleep apnea: A nationwide, population‐based, case‐control study
Author(s) -
Koo Malcolm,
Hwang JuenHaur
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
the laryngoscope
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.181
H-Index - 148
eISSN - 1531-4995
pISSN - 0023-852X
DOI - 10.1002/lary.26323
Subject(s) - medicine , sleep apnea , tinnitus , odds ratio , respiratory disturbance index , sleep disorder , confidence interval , obstructive sleep apnea , apnea , population , pediatrics , physical therapy , polysomnography , audiology , psychiatry , insomnia , environmental health
Objective To investigate the risk of tinnitus in patients with sleep disturbance or sleep apnea. Study Design Case control study. Methods We identified 21,798 middle‐aged and elderly patients with otolaryngologist‐diagnosed tinnitus between January 1, 2000, and December 31, 2012, from the Longitudinal Health Insurance Database 2000 of the Taiwan National Health Insurance Research Database. A total of 108,990 controls were also identified from the same database based on frequency‐matching on 10‐year age interval, sex, and year of index date of the cases. Diagnoses of sleep disturbance (International Classification of Diseases, 9th Revision, Clinical Modification [ICD‐9‐CM] codes 780.50, 780.52, 307.4) and sleep apnea (ICD‐9‐CM codes 780.51, 780.53, 780.57) in the cases and controls prior to the index date were assessed. The risks of tinnitus in patients with sleep disturbance and sleep apnea were separately evaluated with multivariate logistic regression analyses. Results The mean age of the total 130,788 patients was 59.8 years, and 47% of them were males. The risk of tinnitus was higher in patients with sleep disturbance compared to those without the condition (adjusted odds ratio [OR] = 1.13, 95% confidence interval [CI] [95% CI] = 1.11–1.17), and the risk of tinnitus was higher in patients with sleep apnea compared to those without the condition (adjusted OR = 1.36, 95% CI = 1.16–1.60). Conclusion In this population‐based, case‐control study, the risk of tinnitus was found to be significantly higher among middle‐aged and elderly Taiwanese patients with sleep disturbances, especially with sleep apnea. Level of Evidence 3b. Laryngoscope , 127:2171–2175, 2017