The aim of this study was to reinvestigate many of the claims in the literature about @entity393 in @entity1 with Meni  re's disease. We carried this out on a well-defined group of @entity1 under well-controlled circumstances. Thus, we were able to find support for some claims and none for many others. As part of a diagnostic protocol, pure-tone and speech audiometry was performed on 111 @entity1 with Meni  re's disease according to the 'Definition Meni  re Groningen'. This was a prospective clinical cohort study. Affected ears of @entity1 suffering from Meni  re's disease show reduced hearing, both in pure-tone and in speech audiometry. A classification method was devised to determine audiogram shape in an objective manner. The results of this method indicate that affected ears more frequently show 'low' or 'low + high' @entity393 (P = 0.006). The shape of the @entity393 does not depend on the duration of the affection of the disease. In combination with the fact that the average @entity393 does not correlate with the duration of the disease, this leads to the conclusion that, if a classification of the @entity393 in Meni  re's disease is possible, such a classification cannot be connected to the duration. This conclusion is further supported by the fact that no relationship is found between the duration of the disease and the classification of the @entity393 over the 3 months before hospital admission, as given by the @entity1 in a questionnaire. A relationship between the (objective) audiometric data and the (subjective) classification of the @entity393 by the @entity1 seems to be present, but is not very strong. Correlations between pure-tone and speech audiometry are present as in non-Meni  re ears (r = 0.899, P < 0.001), and no indications are found of reduced speech discrimination relative to the expectation based on pure-tone loss. The audiogram shape does not appear to play any additional role in speech discrimination (in addition to the influence of the average pure-tone loss).

Pure-tone and speech audiometry in XXXX with Meni  re's disease.

@entity1 :: ('9606', 'Species') :: ['patients', 'patient'] @entity393 :: ('MESH:D034381', 'Disease') :: ['hearing loss', 'hearing losses']
@entity1 :: (9606,Species) :: ['patients']
