Analysis of Audiometric Differences of Patients with and without Tinnitus in a Large Clinical Database

Human hearing loss (HL) and comorbidities like tinnitus pose serious problems for people’s daily life which in most severe cases may lead to social isolation, depression and suicide. Here we investigate the relationship between hearing deficits and tinnitus. To this end we conducted a retrospective study on anonymized pure tone and speech audiometric data from patients of the ENT hospital Erlangen in which we compare audiometric data between...