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Effect of sex and rate of stimulus on auditory brainstem responses of children with history of preterm birth

Abstract

Background and Aim: Preterm birth is one of the risk factors need comprehensive audiological assessment. In this study, the effect of sex and rate of stimulation on response of children with history of preterm birth was investigated by auditory brainstem response (ABR).
Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted using convinience sampling. Click-evoked auditory brainstem response test with both low (21.1 c/s) and high (51.1 c/s) stimulus rates was recorded in 30 children with a history of preterm birth and 30 ones with history of term labor, as controls.
Results: Significant differences were observed in inter-peak latencies of I-III in both rates, III-V in the low rate, I-V in the high rate, and absolute latency of III wave between high and low stimulus rates (p<0.05 for all). Rate of stimulus affect on auditory brainstem response of preterm birth group was more than controls. Sex also affected on some parameters of auditory brainstem response test.
Conclusion: Preterm birth group showed longer latencies than normal group in both rates. Rate of stimulus had significant effect on results of children with history of preterm birth compared normal group. These findings may reflect the negative effect of preterm birth on neural synchronization function in response to transient stimuli.

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Auditory brainstem response latency stimulus rate sex
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Hasani S, Jafari Z, Rouhbakhsh N, Salehi M, Panahi R. Effect of sex and rate of stimulus on auditory brainstem responses of children with history of preterm birth. Aud Vestib Res. 2017;22(2):83-93.