Maternal, Perinatal, and Postnatal Predisposing Factors of Hearing Loss in Full-Term Children: A Matched Case-Control Study.
Neonatology
; 120(5): 607-614, 2023.
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| ID: mdl-37321203
ABSTRACT
INTRODUCTION:
Studies on risk factors for childhood hearing loss (HL) are usually based on questionnaires or small sample sizes. We conducted a nationwide population-based case-control study to comprehensively analyze the maternal, perinatal, and postnatal risk factors for HL in full-term children.METHODS:
We retrieved data from three nationwide databases related to maternal characteristics, perinatal comorbidities, and postnatal characteristics and adverse events. We used 15 propensity score matching to include 12,873 full-term children with HL and 64,365 age-, sex-, and enrolled year-matched controls. Conditional logistic regression was used to evaluate the risk factors for HL.RESULTS:
Among the various maternal factors, maternal HL (adjusted odds ratio [aOR] 8.09, 95% confidence interval [95% CI] 7.16-9.16) and type 1 diabetes (aOR 3.79, 95% CI 1.98-7.24) had the highest odds of childhood hearing impairment. The major perinatal risk factors for childhood hearing impairment included ear malformations (aOR 58.78, 95% CI 37.5-92.0) and chromosomal anomalies (aOR 6.70, 95% CI 5.25-8.55), and the major postnatal risk factors included meningitis (aOR 2.08, 95% CI 1.18-3.67) and seizure (aOR 3.71, 95% CI 2.88-4.77). Other factors included acute otitis media, postnatal ototoxic drug use, and congenital infections.CONCLUSIONS:
Many risk factors for childhood HL identified in our study are preventable, such as congenital infection, meningitis, ototoxic drug use, and some maternal comorbidities. Accordingly, more effort is required to prevent and control the severity of maternal comorbidities during pregnancy, initiate genetic diagnostic evaluation for high-risk children, and aggressive screening for neonatal infections.Key words
Full text:
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Collection:
01-internacional
Health context:
1_ASSA2030
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4_TD
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Fetal Diseases
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Hearing Loss
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Infant, Newborn, Diseases
Type of study:
Etiology_studies
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Observational_studies
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Prognostic_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
Limits:
Child
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Female
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Humans
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Newborn
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Pregnancy
Language:
En
Journal:
Neonatology
Year:
2023
Document type:
Article