A Comparitive Study of Brainstem Auditory Evoked Response In Chronic Alcoholics And Non Alcoholics
Journal Title: IOSR Journal of Dental and Medical Sciences (IOSR-JDMS) - Year 2017, Vol 16, Issue 5
Abstract
Alcohol is the most commonly used abuse drug in the world. There are at least 208 million people with alcoholism around the world. Long term Alcohol consumption mainly affects all body systems mainly nervous system. In nervous system it affects auditory pathways due to its toxic effects on auditory nerves resulting in various auditory disturbances. Aims & objectives: To study and compare Brainstem evoked auditory response in both Right (Rt) and Left(Lt) ear of chronic alcoholics and non alcoholic controls of Latencies (ms) Wave I ,Wave III Wave V and Interpeak latency (ms) I-III , I-V. Materials & Methods: The study was carried out in the Department of Physiology. It was a case control study which included 120 male subjects in the age group of 25-50 years selected randomly from population. It includes 60 chronic alcoholic men consuming alcohol more than 21 units/week. Control group includes 60 healthy men of same age, BMI and not consuming alcohol. Results: The mean values of latency in wave I in non alcoholic controls and alcoholics was statistically insignificant and there was statistically very highly significant increase in mean latencies of waves III and V in chronic alcoholics as compared to non alcoholics. Mean Interpeak latencies duration of wave I-III and wave I-V in chronic alcoholics was statistically very highly significantly increased as compared to non alcoholic controls. Conclusion: Long term alcohol consumption affects auditory pathways and delayed auditory transmission time.
Authors and Affiliations
Pillai Karthik Piramanayagam, R. Thenmozhi, S. Aleema Banu
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