Audiometric configuration in patients being treated for alcoholism.

The auditory acuity of 52 alcoholic subjects showed a consistent bilateral high frequency loss. Presence of this loss was found to be related to drinking time, but independent of age, suggesting a definite relationship between length of heavy drinking time and loss of auditory acuity in the high frequencies.

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